1st Connecticut Artillery CIVIL WAR LETTER With 37th Jersey Infantry CONTENT
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CIVIL WAR LETTER
This Civil War letter was written by James Peters Elliott (1835-1909) while serving with Co. I, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery. James Elliott enlisted at Bridgeport, Connecticut. He served with his brother George Frederick Elliott (1834-1919) who left after three years service while James re-enlisted. Another brother, Edward Augustus Elliott (1843-1863), served in the 5th Connecticut Infantry and died in 1863. Several of James’ letters can be found on the we...bsite, Soldier Studies. He entered the service as a private and mustered out as a 2d Lieutenant. After the war, he returned to Bridgeport and was for many years a foreman at the Union Metallic Cartridge Company. The Bridgeport Evening Farmer published a notice of Elliott’s death in 1909, calling him “the veteran of many bloody battlefields in the Civil War.” He was buried in Manchester, Massachusetts.Unidentified member of the 1st Connecticut Heavy ArtilleryTRANSCRIPTION
Spring Hill Fort
August 12th 1864Dear Mother, Again I resume my pencil to inform you and the rest of the family that I am still in the land of the living and at the same place where I was the last time that I wrote to you. I have had a light attack of the “back door trot” but have not had to be up only two or three times a night yet, and I think it is somewhat better today. I have tried “sweet-gum tea, ” Tamoca ginger, & blackberry cordial. I have no pain and seem to be gaining. I do not think the water here is first rate although it is quite clear and looks good.Oh! I hear some news to tell you and that is the 37th New Jersey Regiment is here with us. They are out for 100 days. I was with them the other day looking for some of my pupils thinking there might be some of them here and finally I found a young man that lived about three miles from where I used to teach. He was acquainted with most of my patrons and finally I asked him if he knew John Dobler. He said yes—that he belonged to Co. (II) of his regiment so a day or two after I called on him. He knew me and was very glad to see me and also very much surprised. I found him most sick with a turn of the colic. He is a corporal. His father & mother are still alive and well and most of their neighbors also. Butler still stay there and keeps his span of grey as in days of yore.The paymaster has been here and paid us off to July 1st. I have about one hundred dollars and I am in hopes that by the 1st of next January that I may have two hundred to pay in on my place so that encumbrance may be reduced to $400. Then we shall have to pay only $12.00 interest the next six months and then things will be a little more clear, but they look clear enough now ion nothing happens to George or me—that is, if he is willing to look out for you at home. At any rate, there is at this time 290 dollars more bounty due me from the government.Another member of our company has run his race. Died of sickness in the hospital since I wrote last. His name was James F. Huntly. One more is quite sick now.Stamps are played out. Cannot get any here. Love to you all. — JamesTERMS$3.00 postage in the United States. We accept Paypal. Postage combined for multiple purchases. Please wait for me to send the invoice, otherwise will pay a much higher postage rate!For International buyers: We are now using eBay's Global Shipping Program. We had too many packages sent via the post office go missing. So we believe this program will be safer for us - and for you.We're members of the American Philatelic Society, the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society, the Confederate Stamp Alliance and the Illinois Postal History Society.We only sell genuine, original letters (no copies or reproductions). Some of our letters have been transcribed and nicely presented for future genealogists and history buffs on the Spared & Shared blog. We've been selling on eBay since 2001. BID WITH CONFIDENCE.
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This Civil War letter was written by James Peters Elliott (1835-1909) while serving with Co. I, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery. James Elliott enlisted at Bridgeport, Connecticut. He served with his brother George Frederick Elliott (1834-1919) who left after three years service while James re-enlisted. Another brother, Edward Augustus Elliott (1843-1863), served in the 5th Connecticut Infantry and died in 1863. Several of James’ letters can be found on the we...bsite, Soldier Studies. He entered the service as a private and mustered out as a 2d Lieutenant. After the war, he returned to Bridgeport and was for many years a foreman at the Union Metallic Cartridge Company. The Bridgeport Evening Farmer published a notice of Elliott’s death in 1909, calling him “the veteran of many bloody battlefields in the Civil War.” He was buried in Manchester, Massachusetts.Unidentified member of the 1st Connecticut Heavy ArtilleryTRANSCRIPTION
Spring Hill Fort
August 12th 1864Dear Mother, Again I resume my pencil to inform you and the rest of the family that I am still in the land of the living and at the same place where I was the last time that I wrote to you. I have had a light attack of the “back door trot” but have not had to be up only two or three times a night yet, and I think it is somewhat better today. I have tried “sweet-gum tea, ” Tamoca ginger, & blackberry cordial. I have no pain and seem to be gaining. I do not think the water here is first rate although it is quite clear and looks good.Oh! I hear some news to tell you and that is the 37th New Jersey Regiment is here with us. They are out for 100 days. I was with them the other day looking for some of my pupils thinking there might be some of them here and finally I found a young man that lived about three miles from where I used to teach. He was acquainted with most of my patrons and finally I asked him if he knew John Dobler. He said yes—that he belonged to Co. (II) of his regiment so a day or two after I called on him. He knew me and was very glad to see me and also very much surprised. I found him most sick with a turn of the colic. He is a corporal. His father & mother are still alive and well and most of their neighbors also. Butler still stay there and keeps his span of grey as in days of yore.The paymaster has been here and paid us off to July 1st. I have about one hundred dollars and I am in hopes that by the 1st of next January that I may have two hundred to pay in on my place so that encumbrance may be reduced to $400. Then we shall have to pay only $12.00 interest the next six months and then things will be a little more clear, but they look clear enough now ion nothing happens to George or me—that is, if he is willing to look out for you at home. At any rate, there is at this time 290 dollars more bounty due me from the government.Another member of our company has run his race. Died of sickness in the hospital since I wrote last. His name was James F. Huntly. One more is quite sick now.Stamps are played out. Cannot get any here. Love to you all. — JamesTERMS$3.00 postage in the United States. We accept Paypal. Postage combined for multiple purchases. Please wait for me to send the invoice, otherwise will pay a much higher postage rate!For International buyers: We are now using eBay's Global Shipping Program. We had too many packages sent via the post office go missing. So we believe this program will be safer for us - and for you.We're members of the American Philatelic Society, the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society, the Confederate Stamp Alliance and the Illinois Postal History Society.We only sell genuine, original letters (no copies or reproductions). Some of our letters have been transcribed and nicely presented for future genealogists and history buffs on the Spared & Shared blog. We've been selling on eBay since 2001. BID WITH CONFIDENCE.
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