Calvin Littlefield

A school principal, he'd been a member of the New York legislature from 1854-57. He enrolled on 18 October 1861 in Bellville, NY and mustered as Captain, Company K, 94th New York Infantry on 7 February 1862. He was appointed Lieutenant Colonel on 17 March 1862.

He commanded the Regiment in Maryland as senior officer present, Colonel Root having been wounded at Manassas in August.

He resigned 1 November 1862 due to illness.

In 1870 he was successful "speculator" - investor - in New York City, but by 1900 had retired from business and was a farmer in Ellisburg.

His service from the Adjutant General.1 Personal details from a bio sketch in G.W. Bungay's Pen and Ink Portraits of the Senators, Assemblymen, and State Officers... (1857), family genealogists, and the US Census for 1870 and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Brian Sigman for the nudge to look further into Littlefield and for his picture, from a photograph posted to Ancestry.com by a descendant.

He married Harriett Lucretia Sprague (1823-1879) in 1848 and they had three daughters. He married again, Laura Hungerford (1846-1925) in 1883, and they had another daughter, but she died young.

His uniform coat, revolver, and other items were sold by the Horse Soldier Antiques.

See Griff's exhibit of a brief letter from Littlefield to his father dated 21 September 1862, on Spared & Shared.

09/01/1823; Ellisburg, NY

12/29/1909; Belleville, NY; burial in Woodside Cemetery, Belleville, NY