180 letters by Civil War soldier from Akron donated to Niagara County

LOCKPORT – The great-great-grandson of an Akron native who joined a Civil War infantry regiment in Niagara County donated his ancestor’s complete collection of more than 180 wartime letters to the Niagara County Historian’s Office on Wednesday.
The letters by Simon Burdick Cummins, who was only 19 when he joined the Union Army in 1862, relate the horrors of battle and the tedium of camp life, as well as his devotion to duty and his support of President Abraham Lincoln.
“These letters we have from him are priceless and they always will be,” said Legislator W. Keith McNall. “I’m sure many of them will bring tears, but that’s what war is about.”
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What a great find and what a great contribution.