1862-04-16: Coghill, Jonathan Fuller, to Mit and to Ma and Mit, Letters |
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April the 16
Dear Mit
I seat myself this morning to drop you a few lines to let you
no how we are getting on we are well at this time and I hope that when
those few lines reaches you that they may find you enjoying the same
great blessings of life. I have been looking for a letter ever since I
have ben here but I never have recived a letter yet the rest of the boys
gets letters very often some of them got a letter last evening stating
that Mr. Young was dead we took it to be John Young by wich this letter
was writting by his overseer wee all was very sorry to hear it I want
you to write me whether it is so or not.
Mit I wants you to write to me about all the things at home and how
Pappy are getting on planting corn I want him to plant as much as he can
tend and more besides for it seames like no person will plant enything
about hear Mit I must tell you all something about the times I
have a great deal of news to write to you abut the war I cant do it at
this time for I expect wee will have a tremendious battle here for while
I am writing the cannons are roaring like thunder on both sides I saw
a fight the other evening and our men whip them ran over their battrerries
they got the yankes knapsacks and overcoats the yankes are shooting us
like forty
They can never take old Yorktown to my opinion it is well fortified
it is being better fortified every day the breastworks of old general
Washington are hear it has ben many years since they ware thrown up here
but the trees have grown upon them Pappy I will tell you something about
the old Merrimack she took four vessels with about 3000 prisioners and
when the battle comes off here I guess that wee will have some prisioners
too
I will give you a small sketch of my travels we had a hard time of it but
a lively time you never saw we traveld all day in the rain from Orange C H
corthouse to richmon wee rode on and old flat car the hold time we got
to richmon about 12 oclock in the night thay had a fine supper for us
we eat and then wee ware taken down to the railroad for Yorktown wee
traveld all night and the next morning wee took the steam boat I
stayed on the top untill I liked to of froze for it rained all the time
and the wind blew hard I love to ride on watter we rode about 30 miles
I have enjoyed myself ever since I have ben in the army we have a great
meny sick ones in our company it is too tidious to mintion their names
Uncle James Stone is well and I hope that we all will stay well wee have
marched a great meny times it has broke some of our boys down but they
never have broke J F C down yet
Dear Ma and Mit
I wants you to attend to the things until Brother or myself
shall come home for wee do not expect that the war will last eight months
for the time has come when that wee have got to fight and if we whip this
battle wee will be safte
I will state that I saw about ten yankes take a bare crack at Capt
Blacknall and six of his men but they did not get hurt
I must close off at this time for I have no place to write and I do not
no whether it will be the last time or not I cannot tell untill the battle
is fought
I have nothing more to write at this time but remaining your
affectionate son and brother
J F Coghill
[handwritten at bottom of page 1]
Battles involving
Merrimac were in March, 1862
Object Description
Description
| Title | 1862-04-16: Coghill, Jonathan Fuller, to Mit and to Ma and Mit, Letters |
| Creator | Coghill, Jonathan Fuller |
| LC Subject Headings |
Coghill, Jonathan Fuller Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 Peninsular Campaign, 1863 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864 (May-August) Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864 Confederate States of America. Army. Iverson's Brigade Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 23rd United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 |
| EOA Categories |
History – 1838-1874: Sectionalism, the Civil War and Reconstruction Peoples -- Military Life Government and Politics -- Military |
| Description | Photocopies of typescripts of letters (13) written by Coghill to his parents and family. The letters trace Coghill's movements from Yorktown, Virginia, in 1862, through the Gettysburg, Mine Run and Wilderness Campaigns, to the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 and an engagement at Stephenson's Depot. |
| Digital Publisher | Auburn University Libraries |
| Date | 1862-04-16 |
| Original Format | 2 letters |
| Type | Text |
| Format | |
| Original Item ID | RG 0134 |
| Rights | This image is the property of the Auburn University Libraries and is intended for non-commercial use. Users of the image are asked to acknowledge the Auburn University Libraries. For information about obtaining high-resolution copies of this and other images in this collection, please contact the Auburn University Libraries Special Collections & Archives Department at archives@auburn.edu or (334) 844-1732. |
| Relation With | www.american-south.org |
| Language | eng |
| File Name | Coghill_J_F_letters_1.pdf |
| Collection | Jonathan F. Coghill Letters |
| Repository | Auburn University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives. |
| Submitted by | Thornton, Linda; Coates, Midge |
| Transcript | [page 1] April the 16 Dear Mit I seat myself this morning to drop you a few lines to let you no how we are getting on we are well at this time and I hope that when those few lines reaches you that they may find you enjoying the same great blessings of life. I have been looking for a letter ever since I have ben here but I never have recived a letter yet the rest of the boys gets letters very often some of them got a letter last evening stating that Mr. Young was dead we took it to be John Young by wich this letter was writting by his overseer wee all was very sorry to hear it I want you to write me whether it is so or not. Mit I wants you to write to me about all the things at home and how Pappy are getting on planting corn I want him to plant as much as he can tend and more besides for it seames like no person will plant enything about hear Mit I must tell you all something about the times I have a great deal of news to write to you abut the war I cant do it at this time for I expect wee will have a tremendious battle here for while I am writing the cannons are roaring like thunder on both sides I saw a fight the other evening and our men whip them ran over their battrerries they got the yankes knapsacks and overcoats the yankes are shooting us like forty They can never take old Yorktown to my opinion it is well fortified it is being better fortified every day the breastworks of old general Washington are hear it has ben many years since they ware thrown up here but the trees have grown upon them Pappy I will tell you something about the old Merrimack she took four vessels with about 3000 prisioners and when the battle comes off here I guess that wee will have some prisioners too I will give you a small sketch of my travels we had a hard time of it but a lively time you never saw we traveld all day in the rain from Orange C H corthouse to richmon wee rode on and old flat car the hold time we got to richmon about 12 oclock in the night thay had a fine supper for us we eat and then wee ware taken down to the railroad for Yorktown wee traveld all night and the next morning wee took the steam boat I stayed on the top untill I liked to of froze for it rained all the time and the wind blew hard I love to ride on watter we rode about 30 miles I have enjoyed myself ever since I have ben in the army we have a great meny sick ones in our company it is too tidious to mintion their names Uncle James Stone is well and I hope that we all will stay well wee have marched a great meny times it has broke some of our boys down but they never have broke J F C down yet Dear Ma and Mit I wants you to attend to the things until Brother or myself shall come home for wee do not expect that the war will last eight months for the time has come when that wee have got to fight and if we whip this battle wee will be safte I will state that I saw about ten yankes take a bare crack at Capt Blacknall and six of his men but they did not get hurt I must close off at this time for I have no place to write and I do not no whether it will be the last time or not I cannot tell untill the battle is fought I have nothing more to write at this time but remaining your affectionate son and brother J F Coghill [handwritten at bottom of page 1] Battles involving Merrimac were in March, 1862 |
