JAMES OSCAR TYREL 5/5/1863, SUFFOLK, VA

Copyright (c) 2001 by Thomas Dunne (dunne1@usadatanet.net).

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                Transcribed by Thomas L Dunne, descendant of Mortimer S Tyrel, 
who is the brother of  Charles M Tyrel of the 22nd New York Inf., and 
James Oscar Tyrel of the 118th New York Inf.  


               (James Oscar Tyrel was born in Hebron, Washington Co., NY August 
5, 1841. He joined the 118th Reg. NYSV, Co. D in Chestertown, 
Warren Co., NY August 6, 1862. Fought at Drewys Bluff, and was shot 
in the knee at Cold Harbor, VA June 1864, and died in Harwood 
Hospital, Washington, DC, of Gangrene, July 9, 1864.  He is buried at 
that hospital.  He went by the first name of Oscar )  

                                                               Camp near Suffolk, Va   May 5th / 63
                                
                                 Dear brother Oscar 
                                         Billy has a letter ready to send you I must scribble a few lines 
too.  Where not likely to stay here long.  Things are going on first rate.  
The fight here has proved a perfect victory.  The rebels were obliged to 
abandon this fortification to prevent being flanked and captured or cut 
to pieces Hooker is doing well.  He is about showing that our 
confidence in him has not been misplaced.  The rebs however much 
they may try to conceal it are becomming dispondent and we are now 
marching strait to victory.  We are not likely to stay here more than a 
day or two.  I hope we shall go to join Hooker.  I packed up a whole lot 
of letters which came here and sent them back to Eckington Hospital 
some of them wer for you.  I have been comisary, worked in fatigue, 
stood in rifle pits and done whatever has come along and feel much 
better than when I was in Washington I have got a niet picture of Jessie.  
My wife got all the money I sent her safily  the pictures she has had the 
one we had taken framed.  I have got more papers on hand than I can 
read in a week.  There is no excitement here now.  No sound of cannon 
or musketry and at night the Whippowill songs the owl first and the 
froge chirp and one is hardly reminded of war times acept ???? when he 
rools over and bumps his head against a gun or gets pricked by a stick 
and a miniture stump under the blanket.  But the storm which has 
passed over here will be renewed elswhere untill on the next fourth of 
July  I have real faith to believe in and may enjoy a ??? which shall be 
nothing less than the rest of the whole nation.  The commintment of a 
new carear of Peace  Good by far this time.  Write often ever your 
sincere friend.
                                                                                                     Dal

                                P.S  I need make no appologies to you for writing for you know 
under what ???? ?????? a soldier writes   Dal