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Letters, Journals, and Clippings

• Journal of Rensselaer William Foote
• Letters of Rensselaer William Foote
  • Letters of Rensselaer William Foote; the 1830s and 40s
  • Letters of Rensselaer William Foote; the 1850s
  • Letters of Rensselaer William Foote; the 1860s
• Obituaries and Other Published Records

The Journal of Rensselaer William Foote was written, mainly in central Florida at various U. S. Army encampments, in 1839-42 when Foote was a young man, in his 20s. He was a Captain, 6th Infantry U.S. Army, in the Seminole Wars. After a term of service that included duty in California, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico and Wyoming territories, he died, æ. 46 at the battle of Gaine’s Mill. It was the first battle he participated in during the American Civil War.

Read the Journal here...

Obituaries and Clippings

Artifacts in the Collection

Uniform

• Belt for Federal Cavalry Uniform worn by Rensselaer William Foote, 1861–1862.
• Black Felt Officers Hat of Rensselaer William Foote 1861–1862.
• Epaulets of Rensselaer William Foote, three sets, 1850?–1862.
• Velvet Cadets Cap from West Point ca. 1835.

Relics

• Four small, circular Braids of Hair (tied with string and saved in folded paper):
  • Hair, labelled "Eliza Nichols, Creek Indian"
  • Loosely Bound Hair "Malichia"
  • Tightly Tied Circle of Braided Hair "Malachia — Chickasaw"
  • "Phebe, 1847"
• Masonic Apron
• Inkwell
• Signet Ring with an Impression of George Washington
• Desk
• Books
• Silver Long Handled Spoon with initials "J.P." Jerusha Purdy.

Biography

Rensselaer William Foote, was born, probably at Delhi, New York, ["William Rensselaer Foote" source?], 12 November, 1815 to Charles Augustus Foote who was working as a lawyer in New York City, but who may have been called back to Delhi, New York by his father, and Maria (Margaret) Baldwin. [Foote Fam;205, Foote Family pp.]

He graduated West Point in 1834 at age 19. He entered service in the United States 6th Infantry in 1838, where he served in Florida, Arkansas, Missouri, Minnesota, the "Dakotahs", Arizona and California. Illness called him home to Delhi, New York in 1859-60.

He died at Gaines' Mill, Virginia, 26 June, 1862, æ. 46, and where his body was buried with other Union soldiers. Memorial stone at Woodlawn Cemetery, Delhi New York [dff, DCHS, findagrave].

The Official Record states, [June] 26 to July 1—Seven Days Battles/The Seven Days' Retreat. Army of the Potomac, Maj.-Gen. George B. McClellan commanding, including engagements known as Mechanicsville or Ellison's Mills on the 26th, Gaines’ Mills or Cold Harbor and Chickahominy on the 27th, Peach Orchard and Savage Station on the 29th, White Oak Swamp, also called Charles City Cross Roads, Glendale, Nelson's Farm, Frazier's Farm, Turkey Bend and New Market Cross Roads on the 30th and Malvern Hill…” from his, the Sixth Corps, commanded by Maj. Gen. Franklin, there were 245 killed, 1,313 wounded, 1,179 missing. The Sixth Corps, in the entire series of battles lost; Total 1,582 killed. 7,709 wounded, 5,958 missing.

“Capt. in 6th Infantry U.S. Army, Brevet Major and Acting Col. in the first battle in which he took part, and in which he was killed, Gaines’ Mill. Was stationed in Arizona when war broke out." Rensselaer William Foote,8 (Charles Augustus Foote,7 Ebenezer,6 Daniel,5 Nathaniel,4,3,2,1) —Abram W. Foote, Foote Family, p. 205

Chronology of the Life of Rensselaer William Foote

Genealogy

Charles Augustus Foote born 1785 to Ebenezer Foote and Jerusha Purdy. He died at Delhi, N. Y. 1828 and is buried “in the private burying ground at “Arbor Hill.” He married 1808, Maria Baldwin, daughter of Jesse Baldwin and Margaretta de Hart of New York City, or Newark, New Jersey.
Children:

1. Francis Foote, b. 1 Aug., 1809; she d. 27 July, 1891; she m. at ___ 15 Oct.,1832 Charles Marvin, son of Anthony Marvin and Abigail Paine; children:
   1. 1. Charles Augustus Marvin, b. 8 July, 1833, d. 31 March, 1840.
   2. George Edward Marvin, b. 14 June, 1836, d. at ___ , m. 15 Oct., 1853 Harriet N. Steele [Foote Family Papers], daughter of Dr. Eben Steele and Harriet Danforth.
   3. Margaret Maxwell Marvin, b. 9 Aug., 1840 [f.f.pp.], d. , married 28 June, 1871 Isaac Horton Maynard, son of Isaac Maynard and Jane Falconer, he was b. at Bovina, Delaware county, New York 9 April, 1838 [ibid.] Their daughter, Frances Maynard, m. David Ford, of Rome Georgia and New York City.
2. Catherine Bruen Foote, Katherine? b. 14 Sept., 1811 [f.f.pp.]; died Nov., 1897; “Never married but spent her time and money on good works.” [Foote Gen.;205].
3. Harriet Baldwin Foote, b. 1814 [f.f.pp.]; she d. 1814.
4. Rensselaer William Foote, b. 12 Nov., 1815.
5. Charles Augustus Foote, b. 18 March, 1818; died 28 Feb., 1896 at Delhi; married 11 Sept., 1844 Adelia Johnson. children, [Foote Hist;338]:
   1. Katherine Bruen Adelia Foote, b. 27 Sept., 1845. She was an editor of a book, heavily edited, on her great grandfather, Ebenezer Foote, establishing him as an influential figure among the Federalists in New York State in the post-colonial period.
   2. Charles Augustus Foote, b. Feb., 1862, d. Feb., 1862 [Foote Gen.;205].
6. James Buren Foote, b. 16 April, 1821; died 13 May, 1910. He married and had a little girl. Maybe ended up out west?

The Removal of the Seminole People/Seminole wars

The US government committed almost $40,000,000 to the forced removal of slightly more than 3,000 Maskókî men, women, and children from Florida to Oklahoma. This was the only Indian war in US history in which not only the US army but also the US navy and marine corps participated. Together with the desultory Third Seminole War, a series of skirmishes that took place between 1856 and 1858, the United States spent much of the first half of the 19th century in trying, unsuccessfully, to dislodge about 5,000 Seminoles from Florida.

Unlike the "Trail of Tears" that took place in a single, dreadful moment, in 1838, in which thousands of Cherokee people were sent on a death march to the West, the removals of the Seminole people from Florida began earlier and lasted 20 years longer. Just like that other event, however, the toll in human suffering was profound and the stain on the national government of the United States can never be erased. The Seminole people - men, women, and children, were hunted with bloodhounds, rounded up like cattle, and forced onto ships that carried them to New Orleans and up the Mississippi. Together with several hundred of the African ex-slaves who had fought with them, they were then sent overland to Fort Gibson (Arkansas), and on to strange and inhospitable new lands where they were attacked by other tribes, in a fierce competition for the scarce resources that they all needed to survive.” [www.seminoletribe.com/history/indian_removal.shtml]

Federal Troops included:

• United States 2nd Infantry
• United States 5th Infantry
• United States 6th Infantry
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grattan_Massacre
• United States 7th Infantry

Union Soldiers display jaunty headwear at Gaine's Mill, Virginia in 1862.

The telegram that informed Charles Foote that his brother had been killed.

References

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