Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2011, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================== From Thomas Van Horn, Co. I, 110th P.V.I ========================================================================== Uptons Hill Nov the 16 1861 Dear Friend It is with Pleasure that I sit down once more to collect a few of my thoughts to send to you in responce to yours that I received in due time and was Happy to hear from you the Weather is verry cold here and it is verry unpleasant living in tents without fire but but such is the lot of a soldier last saturday our company together with company C went out on picket to stay Forty eight hours about three miles from camp on the road leading from Falls Church to fairfax we was stationed all along the road three on a post about half mile apart all past off m*ry until one in the afternoon there was about two hundred [--] cavelry msterd up and took two of our boys prisoners those that were on the furtherest [page 2] station. We regret to loose them for they was as good boys as we had in our Company they was from the same county that I come frome we received our pay on tuesday last I sent home twenty five dollars making fifty five since I have been a soldier Enos wrote that he wanted me to send my miniature but I cant get to the city to get it taken. I received a letter from my sister the one that used to live to Lodi stating that she was home on a visit it is verry lonesome in camp there is no women here except a few old Hacks that come from the city to peddle we are receiving new clothing to day I wrote to Enos the other day apples are five cents a peice Butter thirty cents per pound and everything else here in proportion. I cant think of anything to write this time that will interest you we have got to go out on a Battallion drill [page 3] this afternoon and it is now time so I will close by saying answer soon Yours for the Union Thomas Van Horn ========================================================================== NOTE: History of Pennsylvania Volunteers says that Thomas Van Horn enlisted August 19, 1861 as a Private and died on May 23, 1865 at Washington, D.C. He is buried in the National Cemetery, Arlington, VA. Records do not state which county Thomas Van Horn was from however, in this letter he mentions his sister who used to live in Lodi. Lodi is located in Bucks County, PA. A History of the 110th P.V.I. states that Companies E, F, G, I from Philadelphia were called The 'Irish Brigade'. On the 1860 Census of Bucks Co., PA - Page 432 - There is a Thomas C. Van Horn who is 19 years old and living in the household of Isaac & Cynthia Van Horn. Please note that this may not be the same Thomas