207th Pennsylvania Infantry

Item LTR-7152

Description

Original Civil War soldier's letter. 2 pages written in period ink.


Camp Near Bermuda Hundred
September 22nd 1864

My Friend,

Chip, charge, cheery

I with the greatest pleasure I try to write to you and let you know how I am getting along since I left home. It was a quick notion I took but it is a firm one or I would have not have left my home and come to this place. But I am satisfied with my change for one year. My friend, I have seen a great deal for the time that I am here but with all this I can’t tell you much. I have got a ride on the ship about 290 miles and that fetched us here in to this country where we have been traveling for one week. We are in the minds of the rebels all the time. We can hear them fighting most all the time. We are drilling and getting ready fast to fight. I am ready all the time at any call ever since I enlisted. I feel like steel but some times them is the one that falls first. If so I am willing. I don’t depend on my own strength. I hope all of my friends remember me while I am in the army and fighting for the country as I hope this year will close the war and leave the people stay at home. That is what I wish if it should lay me under the sand of Old Virginia. But I live in good hope that I will have the privilege of seeing all of my friends again in one year. This country is no country like ours. I wouldn’t give one mile of ours for 25 of this. You can think this is a poor country. It does one good to hear from my own country. Please write to your friend.

John W. Mouer

Address: John W. Mouer
Co F, 207 Regt, PV
Washington, DC