Lieut. Jacob Swartzlander Harper' Ferry July 23, 1861

Lieut. Jacob Swartzlander Harper' Ferry
July 23, 1861

                                        Harper's  Ferry, Md. July 5th 1861

Dear Cousin Han,

             I am enjoying good health and I
hope you are also. We left Washington last Saturday
afternoon and arrived at this place yesterday morning.
We marched 50 miles, from Washington to Point of Rocks,
and from Point of Rocks to Harper's Ferry we rode in the
cars. Yesterday the 4th July we spent on the top of a
high hill in the shade. We had an awful job to get
up the hill having to hold on to the leafs in many places
to draw us up. Towards evening our baggage arrived and
we marched down the hill and up another to our camp
ground a distance of a mile. You ought to have seen
us day before yesterday crossing the Honocacy, a stream
about as large as the Neshaminy. Some took off their (pants), and
drawers and some waded through with their clothes all on. I took
off my pants and rolled up my drawers and waded across the
water more than knee deep, and some placed the current very
swift.


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