JAMES OSCAR TYREL 9/14/1862, NEW YORK

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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 )  

                                                     

                                                                    Sunday
                                                        September 14  1862
                                Dear brother i received your letter of the 7 this morning and was glad 
to here from you i have written to Charles but have not got eny answer 
yet we were thurty six of us out on picket yesterday we heard canon 
adening all of the four noon and a part of the after noon when we came 
in it was after dark our camp was moved and our dthings all turned up 
side down my over coat and canteen i have lost but hope to find them 
again  we that packson got badly cut to pieces yesterday our men let 
them git into the river and then they let them have it the river was red 
with blod for miles our loss was small while that of the rebels was very 
grate prehaps you would like to know about our fare and how we stand 
it we have good fare when we have eny yesterday we went on picket 
write after breakfast and had nothing till we came in about nine o clock 
only what we toold i will now tell you what we hear for our ratons we 
have good pork and potatoes and good bred and rice and coffee and as 
nice shugger as i ever saw for brown shuger   i will now say some thing 
about the contry it is very plesant and furtile but not as handsome as in 
penslevania it is more hily the corn is about twelve feet heigh we had a 
mes of boild corn last night for our super i had a leter from Enos last 
night i was glad to here from him and was more pleased when i 
received one from you I cannot writ much more for this side of my 
paper is not ruled so i must close this from your afectionate brother 
Oscar Tyrel
                                       Direct to S J 
                                       Denests Postofics
                                       Baltamore CO
                                       118 Ridgiment NY 
                                       Co D