Civil War Soldier Letter 1863

Civil War soldier's letter I assume (I don't see any ranks), from camp Falmouth to Beverly ( Virginia I assume)

I have few questions:

1) Can you help me with the address, I read something like:
Mr. ??? W. Taggart
Beverly
Randolph Co,
Ewings Battery

But cannot find any reference on that company

2) Was soldier mail routed trough washington? because cannot find any Falmouth camp in Washington.

First name is "Jno" = John
Middle initial is more likely an N.

Beverly and Falmouth are more likely to be Massachusetts than Virginia. Given the use of a Scott 65, this has to be a Union letter, adding to the notion the state should be Massachusetts.

The address line is clearly:
Beverly, Randolph Co, (then) VA
which would become Randolph Co, West Virginia in June 1863.

The author was likely James A. Taggart. He enlisted in the 3rd West Virginia Infantry, which was later converted to the 6th Regiment, West Virginia Cavalry. The 3rd Infantry was stationed for some time at Camp Falmouth, a Union base on the opposite bank of the Rappahannock River from Fredericksburg, VA.

The recipient is John N. Taggart, who enlisted in the Battery G, West Virginia Light Artillery Battery, and mustered out in June 1864. Battery G was formed from Company G of the 2nd West Virginia Infantry, and was led at one point by Capt Chatham T. Ewing. While it was the 2nd Infantry (and possible later when it was Battery G), the unit was located in Beverly, West Virginia. This matches the address given on the letter.

Read page 328

https://books.google.com/books?id=h...gart&f=false

Caveat: I have no knowledge of Civil war history.

There is a "John N Taggart" severely wounded here.........

http://www.wvculture.org/history/ci...lphur02.html

Rod,

That's almost certainly the same John N. Taggart. He did survive the war, though the author, his brother James, apparently didn't.

Postmaster.
Thank you for the confirmation.
Was anxious I was posting something completely out of context.

As an aside, I find James script writing rather curious.

As a schoolchild, we were always encouraged to give a broad stroke of the Pen Nib, on the downstroke.

James appears to be able to give a broad stroke (the nib expands to leave more ink) on some his upstrokes
How he did that amazes me.
(Unless he wrote some letters backwards (eg : The "D" in dear)

Thank you all for the info about the sender, the recipient and locations connected with this letter.
I have all the info needed it to make a nice Civil war page.