CIVIL WAR LETTER - 84th Pennsylvania Infantry, BATTLE WINCHESTER NEWS & More !

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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 7th 1862
Dear Sister,
It is with the greatest of pleasure that I take my pen again to write you a few lines to let you know that I am well, hoping that you are enjoying the [same] blessing. I have wrote you at home three letters since I have been here and have not much to write this time but for fear that you did not get them, I thought I would write again. I have a chance to send it home with Levi Drucker. He is going home on a furlough and will take it out of the lines of the army to mail it. Letters have been stopped since the fight at Winchester and I do not know whether you will get the last ones I wrote for some time.
I need not write to you about the Battle of Winchester—only that the Brady boys and Union is all safe but Coleman Horn. He was slightly wounded in the leg and is taken to Philadelphia to the hospital and you will get it by the papers before you will get my letters. I will tell you that our regimental flags has fifty-three holes in them. We have a very good place to be here. I do not know how long we will stay here but some of them looks very black at us. But they are getting a little more friendly—some of them, when they find that we do not want to hurt them. They was of the opinion that we would destroy everything when we came.
We have had a nice and warm weather here for some time. Today it was a little cold and snowed a little. Today I went out to a field where there was a man plowing and seen something I never saw. He was plowing with a right handed plow and had the line on the offside horse and he said it was the right way with that kind of a plow but it looked a little awkward for me. This is the hardest sesech country we have been in. There was but 33 Union votes cast in Clarke county.
I want you to write and let me know you have got my money of John Pawley. And about my shingles and what they was sold for. And if you have got the money for them what is being done with my house and lot. I would like to have it fenced and taken care of . And it might as well be put in to something and let me know if Aunt Mary is there or not. You always say that you have no news to write but a little of anything from about home is good for me now. I think you do not consider what would be news to me when I am here. I wrote some letters to you with stamped envelopes and I hears that would not [ ] and I want you to let me know if you had to pay them again or not for I have three or four of them yet.
It is talked of now that we are a going to leave here in a day or two but I can not tell. I must soon quit writing for we will soon have to go out on dress parade. Night before last I was on guard. Yesterday we had preaching—the second time since we left Harrisburg. We are the only troops that is here. We are here as Provost Marshal guard. If you look at the Clearfield paper of the 19th of March, you can see on the map of war where we are. We are ten miles from Winchester.
No more for this time. Your brother, — Jackson Potter
Direct to Winchester, Frederick county, Va., 84th Regt. P. V., in care of Capt. Curby
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