To  “his Wife / Amie A. Scott / Claremont, N.H.”; dated “Camp Casey, Washington, DC, November 27, 1861". 4 pp., in ink, on unlined paper with patriotic colored map heading. The letter exhibits fold-marks and light soiling along fold-lines. Plus slight wear and on small, dark  .75” blotch on a reverse margin. Else VG, attractive, and entirely legible. 

Text excerpts:

“To morrow is Thanksgiving and….they say that we have got to start tomorrow over in Virginia tomorrow. We are goin in to Cummings brigade on the other side of the Potomac in the rebel land and I ain’t sorry neither. Every time it rains it is as muddy as the devil and we can’t go in to a worse place I think………..Give all my love to my inquiring friends in Charlestown or in Claremont. …….I have not seen Lincoln yet nor the white house nor the Mc Clellan neither……..you will see me in the spring if nothing happens to me. And you not worry one thing about me………..Charles N. Scott/ This is from / to his wife / Amey A. Scott / Claremont / N.H.” 

Charles N. Scott was a 25 year-old farmer who enlisted as a private and was mustered into the 5^th NH Infantry on 10/12/1861. He was killed on 6/1/1862 at Fair Oaks VA. His 5^th New Hampshire unit was organized at Concord, NH on 10/12/1861, and was attached in the spring of 1862 to the Army of the Potomac, with whom it served through the Battle of Gettysburg. Later detached to the Department Carolina, the unit returned to Virginia to serve with the AOP at the Siege of Petersburg, and on through the closing fights at Sailor’s Creek and Farmville in April 1865. At the earlier Battle of Fair Oaks, in which Pvt. Scott was killed, his regiment lost 40 dead and mortally wounded. By the time the 5^th NH was mustered out in late May 1865 it had lost 297 men killed and mortally wounded and 176 from disease for a total of 473. 

An excellent soldier letter from a private killed in action while serving with New Hampshire’s hard-fighting 5^th Infantry.  Accompanied by transcription and a brief amount of research information.