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Thomas Jefferson “Jeff” McCutcheon

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Birth	:	1838 Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
Death	:	7 Mar 1864 Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Burial	:	Richmond National Cemetery, Richmond, Henrico County, USA
Coordinate	:	37.5144010, -77.3927990
Description	:	---Pension Index McCutchen, Thomas J; dependent - mother McCutchen, Mary; service: A Loudon Rangers Va Cav Filed 1866, April 25, mother application 125627, certificate 147836 ---American Civil War Soldiers Record, National Park Service Thomas Jefferson McCutcheon enlisted 20 June 1862, Distinguished Service, Union, Virginia, unit number 3007. Enlisted as a Corporal on 20 June 1862, in Company A, Loudoun Rangers Regiment Virginia. POW on 18 October 1863 at Charles Town, WV, wounded on 18 October 1863 at Charles Town, WV, died of wounds while POW ---Independent Loudoun Virginia Rangers, presented by Linda Cunningham Fluharty, from the records of... Read More	---Pension Index McCutchen, Thomas J; dependent - mother McCutchen, Mary; service: A Loudon Rangers Va Cav Filed 1866, April 25, mother application 125627, certificate 147836 ---American Civil War Soldiers Record, National Park Service Thomas Jefferson McCutcheon enlisted 20 June 1862, Distinguished Service, Union, Virginia, unit number 3007. Enlisted as a Corporal on 20 June 1862, in Company A, Loudoun Rangers Regiment Virginia. POW on 18 October 1863 at Charles Town, WV, wounded on 18 October 1863 at Charles Town, WV, died of wounds while POW ---Independent Loudoun Virginia Rangers, presented by Linda Cunningham Fluharty, from the records of the West Virginia Adjutant General -The Independent Loudoun Virginia Rangers mustered into Union service on June 20, 1862. Samuel C Means, a gristmill owner in Waterford, Va, had been driven from his home for refusing to support the Southern position. Eventually, he was granted a direct commission from Secretary of War Edward M Stanton to raise a company of scouts from Virginia. -The men who enlisted in the two companies of the Loudoun Rangers were largely from the German and Quaker farming communities in the northern part of Loudoun County. They had not been slaveholders and their allegiance to the Union was greater than their loyalty to the state. -The Loudoun Rangers, closely aligned with the West Virginia regiments, was the only organized body of troops from the state of Virginia to fight in the Union Army. ---Excerpts from History of the Independent Loudoun Virginia Rangers, U S Vol Cav (scouts) 1862-65 by Briscoe Goodhart (Washington, DC: Press of McGill & Wallace, 1896) -pp. 204-223; Chapter XIV concerning prison experiences for the Rangers; ". . . At Charlestown October 18, 1863, 18 of the Rangers were taken prisoner and perhaps suffered the greatest of any, as 14 out of the 18 literally starved to death. We shall briefly give their experience. //From Charlestown they were marched up the Valley to Staunton, where they were placed on cars and taken to Richmond, arriving one week from the date of capture. On being made prisoners the first thing demanded was their arms. The next, their money and other valuables, although quite a number managed to save their money, watches, etc., by concealing them in seams of their clothing and in their stockings. Their treatment was very bad from the beginning. The rations furnished en route to Richmond were about half enough in quantity and of a very poor quality. //They arrived in Richmond, Monday evening, November 1, and were placed in Pemberton prison, a three-story brick building (tobacco warehouse) on Cary Street, opposite castle Thunder. The prison was in command of a Maj Turner, assisted by Eratus W Ross. It was difficult to tell which of these two specimens of humanity was the more brutal, with the chances favoring Ross. He was very small in body, and still smaller in soul, if he had any. //On Tuesday the prisoners were all put on the upper floors, one being brought down at a time. The name, company, and regiment of each man was taken, and he was caused to disrobe himself, and while in this nude condition his clothes were returned, the seams and pockets all examined and thoroughly searched, his watch, money, pocket-knife, and all other valuable taken and placed on a table, with the guileless promise that these articles would be returned when the prisoner was exchanged. This promise, like all other promises of the Confederacy, was never fulfilled. . . . Their stay at Pemberton was brief, though long enough, just one week, and they were taken to Belle Isle, in the James river, opposite Richmond. So far as nature is concerned, it is a beautiful landscape. It contains about thirty acres. The ground rising rapidly at the upper end, forming a ridge, or small mountain, while on the lower end it is a level, sandy plain, where prisoners were confined to a square enclosure containing about two acres, surrounded by an embankment, or parapet, 5 feet high. There was a ditch on the outside, 4 feet wide, and on the outside of this ditch the guards walked to and fro. On the inside of the parapet was a ditch 4 feet deep and 6 feet wide, which was known as the "dead line," and woe be to him who ventured near. //The stockade, or prison pen, contained a few old tents sufficient to accommodate 3,000, although there were double that number crowded into them. Eleven thousand was the greatest number of prisoners on this two acres at one time, by which it will be readily seen several thousand were without shelter to protect them from the cold winter blasts. Generally, when captured, the prisoners were deprived of their blankets and overcoats, and in consequence many were actually frozen to death. During the month of December the United States was permitted to send a few blankets and some clothing to the prisoners, who were in great need. These supplies were sent in charge of a young man, who distributed them to the prisoners. This young man was D L Moody, now the great evangelist. //The ration was a piece of corn bread, made from unsalted and unsifted meal, and about two inches square, which was generally furnished twice but often once a day, and sometimes once in two or three days, with occasionally a very small morsel of meat or half a pint of bean soup. On several occasions it was weeks that they did not receive anything but corn bread. On this ration the prisoners became reduced rapidly in flesh. Without meat or salt, scrofula set in, and before Spring no less than 5,000 actually perished, frozen and starved to death . . . Wood was issued to the prisoners for fuel but three times during winter, three sticks to ten men…There was an excuse of a hospital on the Island, where patients were taken for treatment, although when one entered its portals it was practically bidding adieu to all earthly hope. While it is true the supply of medicine in the Confederate domains was somewhat limited, yet there seemed to be ample to save life, if properly administered. Everyone of the rangers who was taken to the hospital on the Island died, with the single exception of George Nogle . . . Jeff McCutcheon was shot by the rebel guard for being outside of the dead line. He was taken to the hospital and died from his wound, March 7, 1864. . . " ---------------------------------------- Posting by Barbara on Find A Grave forum: Union Dead at Oakwood Federal soldiers who died in Richmond as prisoners of war received temporary burials at Belle Isle, Hollywood Cemetery, Shockoe Cemetery, and Oakwood Cemetery. Precise records do not survive—if they ever existed—to document the specific numbers. . . .By the spring of 1866, all of the remaining marked Union dead at Oakwood had been removed to the newly created Richmond National Cemetery on the Williamsburg Road. At least 200 identified dead and 162 unidentified dead were transferred. If any remained behind at Oakwood, it was accidental. Richmond National Cemetery is located at 1701 Williamsburg Rd, in Richmond, VA. . . .No cemetery staff is present onsite. The administrative office is located at the Hampton National Cemetery, and the office is open Monday to Friday from 8am to 4:30pm. For more information, please contact the cemetery office at 757-723-7104

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Thomas Jefferson “Jeff” McCutcheon death on 7 Mar 1864 in Richmond City, Virginia, USA
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