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[UNION SOLDIER`S CORRESPONDENCE]: A great war-date Union soldier's correspondence written by Pvt. George Satterlee, Co. A, 104th New York Vols. from April 1862 to April 1864. There are 21 letters, two on patriotic letterhead, totaling 61pp. mostly in ink and measuring 8vo. in size, concerning Satterlee's service in Virginia and of his whereabouts after the battle of Gettysburg, in very small part: "...[Washington, Apr. 1, 62]...Started for New York the 25th...then we started for Washington...[at] Philadelphia...we had to march two miles to the cars. We stayed...in the cars til five in the morning...about half a mile [from Baltimore] we came to a curve and the cars came apart in the middle...we got out and pushed them about forty rods...[Camp Reliance, Va., May 4]...General Duryea had a dispatch from Yorktown that it was evacuated and the rebels had started for Richmond...the colonel said that [we] would leave here in a few days for Richmond...we shall have a chance to use our Enfields...some of the boys can't shoot a blank cartridge...it sounds like war when we are all firing at once. Sometimes we fire by file and such a racking you never heard...last week a corporal and two privates [were] taken prisoner by the rebels out of the 48th. They kept them three days and they got away...there is a cavalry regiment camped on a knoll a little ways off...last night a boy out of the 87th and a cavalryman...had some fuss...and the cavalryman struck him with his saber and cut his head open and put out one of his eyes. He hurt him so that he never can get well...[Camp Reliance, Va., May 9, 62]...The other day I was out on picket...I had to guard a house where a family that said they were for the Union. We guard their property to keep the boys and anyone else from destroying their stuff...[and] so that they shant git any news to the rebels...a[n] old lady...in the house...told us that her husband was in the rebel army and she did not want us around her house...about two o'clock the hundred and fifth [N.Y.] commenced to fire there guns and the long roll was beat...it scared most...to death...we soon see what was up and stood and laughed...they scared the pickets so that they run into the camp and some of the men run so that it roused up a fort two miles from here. They got up a loaded their thirty pounders...if they had fired a gun there would have been all the troops in Washington up here...[Catlett Station, Va., June 8, 62]...Was sorry to hear such sad news...I shall try to come home after I get my pay...mother...may fall away as...father died...[Weaversville, Va., June 27, 62]...A young fellow died here and last night he was buried...our men are a fighting at Richmond. They commenced yesterday on the left wing...the rebs are about to give us up...one of our boys went out of camp the other day and has not returned...last night the news came...that his body was found hanging to a tree...[Rockville, Md., Sept. 9, 62]...I have been a wishing to get into fight all summer and now I have got my wish for I have been in two or three in the last 3 weaks...[Sharpsburg, Md, Sept. 27, 62]...We are laying still now and have been for a week. I think we have fought the rebs...out and this war will have to come to a close before long...I suppose you feel sad because all the boys have gone to war...we can't go to partys such as you have up thare...only when we meat the rebs and then the show begins...[George's tent mate and cousin, Corp. John. S. Satterlee writes]...[Bakesville, Md., Sept. 28, 62]...I am well at present having been through with seven battles and have not received as much as a scratch...as for wanting to go into another ball as we call them I would rather stay out for they had just as soon hit a fellow as not...[Camp near Brooks Station, Va., Oct. 8]...I got a peace of butter...about as big as a butternut [rebel]...John and I eat it for our dinner and I expect it will make us sick...[Warrenton, Va., Nov. 11, 62]...I had to go out on picket...McClellan has been removed from his command and Burnside has taken his place...the soldiers are all mad about it...[Brooks Station, Nov. 30, 62]...We are now a laying still but expect to move every day...every thing looks...[like] a fight before long...the roads are so bad now that it is impossible to mobilize the troops now...you must excuse this poor writing for Steve Havens [Pvt. Stephen Havens became a POW at Gettysburg] my tent mate is a bothering me and John is a eating his supper and I shall have to lay down my letter and dust them out of the tent...[Fredericksburg, Va., Jan. 4, 63]...I have built me a house and got a fire place in it and it is as warm and nice a thing as you ever saw. There is five of us...in it...[Camp near Belle Plain, Va., Feb. 4, 63]...When...out on patrol the other day one of the boys came very near putting out one of my eyes with his bayonet it cut my face just below my eye pretty bad and I am afraid there will always be a scar...it is quite sore today...there is not more than 25 men in our company for duty and I am on duty every other day...[Bell Plaine, Feb. 16, 63]...We have just had a very nice drill but there was one officer out with us that didn't know as much as a private in the rear rank...[Feb. 17, 63]...Today I and John has got to go out on picket...[Belle Plain, Va., Mar. 4, 63]...I was on picket when the box came and John had got it and opened it...[Belle Plain, Va., Mar. 8, 63]...John is well and is out on picket and wont be in until Tuesday...[Belle Plain, Va., Apr. 16, 63]...We are expecting to move every day...I have got to go out to inspection now for the First drum had beat all ready...[Gettysburg campaign June 24, 63]...The army has been on a move...we except to move every day...last Sunday the Fifth Corps had a brush with the rebs. We got all packed up ready to go and help them...[after being wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, Pa., Aug. 15]...I have not wrote home since I have been here. You must write mother where I am and let her know that I am well. I shant go back to the regiment not as long as this hospital is here. I heard from John the other day and he said he received some letters from you for me...one he said had some money in [it] and [he] spent it. This was before for knew where I was...direct your letters...to Gettysburg...[A note on the verso reads: M[ary] you can burn these. I don't feel like it]...[Camp Tyler, Md., Nov. 29, 63]...To day I thought I would write you a few lines and let you know that I was well and still in Baltimore...there was a lot of men sent away from here last night and some more this morning...[Company A, 104th Regt. N.Y., Mitchell's Station, Va., Apr. 15, 64]...We have had some very bad weather since I got back...the sutlers are all ordered a way from the front...they went today it looks to me very much like a move...[Camp of the 104th N.Y., Apr. 22, 64]...I am on guard tonight. John has gone to bed it is after ten and the camp is very quite...I cut my foot the other day when I was on picket but it has got most well now...". Unfortunately, John Satterlee was killed just weeks later at the battle of Spotsylvania and George would die as a prisoner after being captured at the battle of Weldon Station, Va. Aug. 19, 1864. Also includedis an A.L.S. Nov. 11, 1862 to George, from his sister mentioning family finances plus having to put his young brother to work in order to make ends meet. Minor spotting and soiling with one tear not affecting content, else very good. $1,500-2,000
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