CIVIL WAR LETTER - 7th Ohio Infantry - Killed Month Later BATTLE of KERNSTOWN !

Description

CIVIL WAR LETTER
Co. G, 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (OVI)
This Civil War soldier letter was written by John Fram (1842-1862), the son of Robert Fran (1812-1887) and Jane Main (1818-1898) who came with their family to Portage county, Ohio, from Scotland in 1849.
John enlisted in June 1861 in
Co. G, 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (OVI)
. We suspect this letter was probably written by a comrade in the service as the handwriting appears better than John’s.
John wrote this letter in February 1862. The following month, on 23 March 1863, John was killed during the First Battle of Kernstown—perhaps killed while lying under the “nerve-wracking artillery bombardment from which they could not run” on Pritchard’s Hill. His headstone is in the Winchester National Cemetery, Section 11, Grave 306.
[See
The 7th OVI at the Battle of Kernstown-March 1862
]
John wrote to his younger brother, William Fram (1845-1930).
Transcription
Camp [Duty at Hampton Heights and Paw Paw Tunnel]
February 1862
Dear Brother,
I take this opportunity of writing you a few lines to let you know that I am very well at present but I hope these few lines will find you enjoying good health. I never wrote a letter in my life to before as myself. I am trying to write all my letters myself so I will not trouble anybody but myself. So you can see for yourself how I am gaining and what do you think of such stuff. There was one of the general’s aide shot through the left shoulder by a bushwhacker and some of our scouts says they seen 300 infantry and about 100 cavalry. They went back to camp and our men came back to camp ad reported that the whole force is about 18 miles from here. But our men are not afraid of them and we don’t think that we will ever have a fight.
I think I will be home with you next fall of not before. There is a good chance of this war ending but I will have to draw my letter to a close. So goodbye.
From your brother, — John Fram
to his brother, William Fram
Direct to the 7th Regt., Co. G, in care of F. [ ]
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