He was the eighth of nine children of Capt. Edmund Tuttle and Louise Fletcher.
Adams Tuttle was a farmer. He enlisted 17 Mar 1862 at 19 years old. He was killed in action at the battle of Spotsylvania Court House in Virginia and has a gravestone at Westlawn Cemetery. He was a Corporal 1st Regiment Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Company L.
Imagine, as a young man going into this war, when he probably hadn’t traveled very far from Littleton. The things he saw and ultimately lost his life on a battlefield. Blows my mind.
Spotsylvania Court House was the second engagement of the Overland Campaign, a series of battles fought in Virginia during May and June 1864. Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, general-in-chief of all Union armies, directed the Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. George Meade, against Confederate general Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Grant’s objectives were to pursue Lee, cripple his army, and capture the Confederate capital of Richmond. Success relied on a relentless pursuit of the enemy, so Grant instructed Meade, “Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.” from “American Battlefield Trust.”
