CIVIL WAR LETTER - 84th Pennsylvania Infantry - Ordered to Sleep on Guns !

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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
Pawpaw Valley, Virginia
February 11th 1862
It is with 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 wrote to you and Jane on the 5th—the two last letters I wrote to you. I did not pay the postage. You will have to pay it. On the 5th, after I wrote to you, we got our pay after night and was ordered to sleep on our arms all night. I sent dollars home with K. W. Pawley to you and I want you to tent to getting it. In about a month we will get pay again. Isaac Lines sent home 30 dollars too. I want you to be sure to write and let me know about it and whether you got it. I want you to always let me know the dates of the letters you get and then I can tell whether you get them all. I think you do not get all that I write to you.
In the morning at four o’clock we got orders to march. We rode in the cars to Patterson’s Creek. It was raining and sleeting. We are now under marching orders to leave at 1 o’clock today. We are laying at the Pawpaw Tunnel in Virginia. Yesterday we pitched our tents. We had to lay out out for the last four nights and it was very cold. We are about twenty or thirty miles from Winchester where the big fight is expected to be.
Be sure and let me know whether you got my letter of the 5th for I wrote to you about my shingles. Nothing more at present. — Jackson Potter
[to] John Potter
Direct to Cumberland, Alleghany county, Maryland, 84th Regt., Penn. Vol. in care of Capt. Curby, Company I.
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