Calvin Cummings died on 1 Sep 1864 in a Civil War hospital of illness,  not a wound, and was then buried on the same day in the military cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia. He served as a private in Company K in the 30th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He was 41 years old at the time of his death.

Alexandria (Virginia) National Cemetery

The inscription of the gravestone is brutally simple:  “2621 Calvin Cummings M.E.” According to the National Cemetery Administration Grave Locator, he is buried in Section B at Site 2621 in the Alexandria (Virginia) National Cemetery.

He was the husband of Louisa (York) Cummings, the father of Mary, John, Hannah,  Lincoln and Calvin. He is the grandfather of Earl O. Cummings, and my husband’s great-great-grandfather. Follow this link to see his pedigree.

I wonder if any of his family ever made the journey to visit his grave? What might have been their choice of an epitaph for his gravestone?