CIVIL WAR LETTER - 84th Pennsylvania Infantry, GREAT CONTENT Rebels Cannons Etc

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CIVIL WAR LETTER
Civil War Letter by Soldier in Co. I, 84th Pennsylvania Infantry
This Civil War soldier letter was written by 27 year-old Jackson Potter (1834-1862), the son of John Potter (1807-1880) and Mary Rishel (1813-1879) of Luthersburg, Clearfield county, Pennsylvania. Jackson enlisted on 1 October 1861 in
Co. I, 84th Pennsylvania Infantry
and he died on 11 July 1862 at Alexandria, Virginia.
Most of the letters were written to his father, or his sister, Jane Potter (1839-1905), and a few to other family members such as his brother, William Marion Potter (1842-1916).
Of Potter’s service, his commanding officer wrote, “the company joins with me in [conveying to you, his father,] that they have lost a true soldier and a pleasant companion.”
Transcription
Berryville, Clarke county, [Virginia]
April 19th 1862
Jane,
It is with great pleasure that I take my pen to write you a few lines to let you know that I am well, hoping that you are all the same. I received a letter from you on the 15th and I have been looking everyday for more but they have not come. I have wrote twice since the one that you answered.
There has been a great many soldiers going through for the last three days of infantry, cavalry, cannons, and a continual train of wagons all of the time. On the tenth we was mustered out for pay and last night at one o’clock, we was woke up and taken to headquarters and paid for two months, 26 dollars. On the first of April we will have two months more pay coming.
We have had very warm weather for the last few days. It is raining this morning. We [got] orders to march again tomorrow morning. Our regiment is going back to Winchester and four companies is going on to Strasburg.
The leaves is coming out here now and the peach trees is in full bloom. There is not much farming going on here. The men is nearly all gone and the slaves has no teams left them. The horses is nearly all taken to the army.
Butter is selling here for fifty cents per pound, eggs is twenty cents for dozen, and everything accordingly. Grain seems to be plenty and everything else scarce.
In your last letter I got in it eight postage stamps and was glad to get them for there is no such a thing as getting them here and sometime ago I got twelve, I think. I have not much to write for all of the war news that I know of, you can get it in the papers before you would get my letter. I do not know when I will try to send my money home and if I think that I get to go home before harvest, I will keep it. There is some talk here that there will be one hundred thousand discharged against the first of May but we can hear most anything here. There is more soldiers going through today. They are most all Dutch regiments from New York. There was several regiments from Pennsylvania.
The Rebel Col. Ashby and his cavalry is taken. He has been a great trouble to us and ask of the army of Western Virginia.
April 20th. It is raining and is a little cool. This is Easter Sunday but it don’t seem much like it here. Tomorrow I suppose we will leave here. Write to me soon. I suppose that Jackson Horn is down the river now. Things is quiet here today. No more this time. Your brother, — Jackson Potter
to Jane Potter
Direct to Winchester, Va., 84th Regt. P. V. in care of Capt Curby
April 22nd. This morning we are starting for Winchester. The rain kept back on yesterday. Our company and three others is going to Strasburg and four stays in Winchester and one stays at the ferry below here. Our regiment will be scattered for nearly forty miles.
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