CIVIL WAR LETTER - 84th Pennsylvania Infantry, Manassas Taken, Expects Fight !!

Description

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
Camp Kelley, Maryland
January 20th 1862
It is with pleasure, Elmira, that I take my pen to let you know that I am well, hoping that these few lines will find you in the same state of health. We are in Camp Kelley, Maryland. There is about seventy-five thousand in this division. We are laying ready for a fight and we expect to be in it soon. I have been in one fight and we lost none but one drowned [Theodore Pardee] for a great many had to wade the river. It has been raining for three days and it is very muddy and the river high.
There is a great move in the army now. I think there will be something done. There has been a dispatch come since I commenced to write that General McClellan has taken Manassas with the loss of one thousand men but I do not know [how] true it is. We have had it hard since we left Camp Curtin. I [want] you all to write to me. You can read all these together. Nothing more at present. Your brother, — Jackson Potter
to Elmira Potter
Camp Kelley, Maryland
January 20th 1862
Eliza, it is with pleasure that I take my pen to write you a few lines in answer to your letter to let you [know] that I am well at present, hoping you are the same. I am now among rebels. I have not got any letters from home for a long time. We are expecting to have to fight every day for there is a great move in the army now all along the Potomac. It is very muddy here now and the soldiers is coming every day.
We are under General Kelley. Nothing more at present but your brother, — Jackson Potter
[to] Eliza Potter
Camp Kelley, Maryland
January 20th 1862
Joanna, it is with pleasure that I take my pen to let you know that I am well, hoping that you are in the [same] state of health. Joey, I will tell you that I have been in a fight and expect to be in more. Joseph Kritzer is well and he says that he will write to you. I have nothing more to write for I have not time to write. I have middling hard times for soldiering is hard work.
Your brother, — Jackson Potter
[to] Joey Potter
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