To My Beloved Wife and Boy at Home: The Letters and Diaries of Orderly Sergeant John F.L. Hartwell, Volume 121John Hartwell, a 31-year-old married house carpenter from Herkimer, New York, enlisted in the Union Army on 23 August 1862, over his wife's objections. For the next two and one-half years, Hartwell filled six diaries and one hundred one letters describing his journey through hell. In 1989, Professor Ann Hartwell Britton discovered Hartwell's hoard of letters and five of the diaries among family papers in Florida and Massachusetts. Britton and her law faculty colleague Thomas J. |
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121st New York 1864 Diary Entry 23 August April ARAG Army Artillery Battery Berryville boys Brandy Station Brigade Calista Camp Cavalry Citty cold command Company Confederate crossed dark daylight Dear Wife Divis Division Drill duty Emory Upton enemy enlisted evry expect feel fight fire flank Fredericksburg Friday glad guard hard hardtack Harpers Ferry Hartwell's regiment Hazel River Herkimer Herkimer County hope Infantry Irving J. F. Hartwell John Hartwell's July June killed letter line of battle March Middleville miles Monday morning move mustered nearly orders Phisterer Picket pleasant possition Potomac rain Rappahannock rebels received regt relieved river Saturday sent Sixth Corps skirmish sleep soldier soon stoped Sunday tell tent thare things Thursday tierd toards took Tuesday U.S. Colored Troops Union Army Upton Virginia Warrenton whare wood wounded write yesterday York Vol
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