Samuel Mickey enlisted on 5 Jan 1864 in the Wisconsin 3rd Regiment, Infantry, of the Union Army. Samuel Mickey was 18 years old when he was killed during the battle of New Hope Church while serving under the command of General Sherman.
Samuel Mickey's father William Elery Mickey had served in the same regiment and Company, prior to Samuel enlisting, but was mustered out after contracting hepatitis in March of 1862. Samuel's brother-in-law, Leonard C. Norton, also served in the Wisconsin 3rd Regiment, Company H, but was mustered out on March 27,1863 due to wounds received at Antietam.
The following is the text of two letters found in the Pension Request file of Samuel Mickey's mother: File #229682. Samuel was killed on May 25th....just weeks after these two letters were penned.
Camp Randall Feb 23
Dear Father it is with great pleasure that I seat myself to write you a few lines to let you know how I am. Well and and all of you are the same. We don't know when we leave here but expect before long. I wrote that we would leave Monday but I don't know when we will leave.
I don't know what is the reason you don't write. I have not had but one letter from you. I have written five or six. Will is well. I sent sixty dollars to you by Isker Daring. I want you to write and tell me whether you have got it yet. The news is that we will leave here today but I don't believe it. Kiss the solger (soldier) boy for me.
I wrote a letter to you and mother Sunday.
This from your unworthy son
S.D. Mickey
Sunday Morning April 17
Dear mother and father and brothers and sisters and Grandmother it is with the greatest of pleasure that I seat myself to write you a few lines to let you know that and hoping when those few lines come to hand they will finde all well and enjoying yourselves well.
I enjoy myself as well as I can. Will is well and so is Arthur.
Now father I have just come from dinner. I will tell you what it consisted of; Beans, Bacon, Hard Tack, and cold water. Well that is enough for a man when he is well. I have had a turn of the diarrhea that slow me down considerably. But I am well now and hearty. I do not know how much but some of the boys says I will weigh one hundred and fifty and I do not doubt it. For when I was in Madison I weighed
152 lbs. Will says he weighs 140 but I don't think he's doing well.
I have no news of importance to write this time. Now mother I want to say a few words to you if you want to make me happy. Don't go out washing nor work out for my one, if for I when I come home. I want to see you and if you wash I never expect to.
Let my dear little brother wear my cap and when I get my pay I will send him 2 dollars to buy him a new one. Kiss him for me. I tell you, you don't know how much good it does me to get a letter from home.
I have written to old Mick and have not had any answer yet. I intend to write some to Eugene Smith today. Well I must close. Good bye for this time. Write soon and often. Don't worry for me.
This from your son to his parents.
Samuel Mickey's father William Elery Mickey had served in the same regiment and Company, prior to Samuel enlisting, but was mustered out after contracting hepatitis in March of 1862. Samuel's brother-in-law, Leonard C. Norton, also served in the Wisconsin 3rd Regiment, Company H, but was mustered out on March 27,1863 due to wounds received at Antietam.
The following is the text of two letters found in the Pension Request file of Samuel Mickey's mother: File #229682. Samuel was killed on May 25th....just weeks after these two letters were penned.
Camp Randall Feb 23
Dear Father it is with great pleasure that I seat myself to write you a few lines to let you know how I am. Well and and all of you are the same. We don't know when we leave here but expect before long. I wrote that we would leave Monday but I don't know when we will leave.
I don't know what is the reason you don't write. I have not had but one letter from you. I have written five or six. Will is well. I sent sixty dollars to you by Isker Daring. I want you to write and tell me whether you have got it yet. The news is that we will leave here today but I don't believe it. Kiss the solger (soldier) boy for me.
I wrote a letter to you and mother Sunday.
This from your unworthy son
S.D. Mickey
Sunday Morning April 17
Dear mother and father and brothers and sisters and Grandmother it is with the greatest of pleasure that I seat myself to write you a few lines to let you know that and hoping when those few lines come to hand they will finde all well and enjoying yourselves well.
I enjoy myself as well as I can. Will is well and so is Arthur.
Now father I have just come from dinner. I will tell you what it consisted of; Beans, Bacon, Hard Tack, and cold water. Well that is enough for a man when he is well. I have had a turn of the diarrhea that slow me down considerably. But I am well now and hearty. I do not know how much but some of the boys says I will weigh one hundred and fifty and I do not doubt it. For when I was in Madison I weighed
152 lbs. Will says he weighs 140 but I don't think he's doing well.
I have no news of importance to write this time. Now mother I want to say a few words to you if you want to make me happy. Don't go out washing nor work out for my one, if for I when I come home. I want to see you and if you wash I never expect to.
Let my dear little brother wear my cap and when I get my pay I will send him 2 dollars to buy him a new one. Kiss him for me. I tell you, you don't know how much good it does me to get a letter from home.
I have written to old Mick and have not had any answer yet. I intend to write some to Eugene Smith today. Well I must close. Good bye for this time. Write soon and often. Don't worry for me.
This from your son to his parents.
Samuel Mickey enlisted on 5 Jan 1864 in the Wisconsin 3rd Regiment, Infantry, of the Union Army. Samuel Mickey was 18 years old when he was killed during the battle of New Hope Church while serving under the command of General Sherman.
Samuel Mickey's father William Elery Mickey had served in the same regiment and Company, prior to Samuel enlisting, but was mustered out after contracting hepatitis in March of 1862. Samuel's brother-in-law, Leonard C. Norton, also served in the Wisconsin 3rd Regiment, Company H, but was mustered out on March 27,1863 due to wounds received at Antietam.
The following is the text of two letters found in the Pension Request file of Samuel Mickey's mother: File #229682. Samuel was killed on May 25th....just weeks after these two letters were penned.
Camp Randall Feb 23
Dear Father it is with great pleasure that I seat myself to write you a few lines to let you know how I am. Well and and all of you are the same. We don't know when we leave here but expect before long. I wrote that we would leave Monday but I don't know when we will leave.
I don't know what is the reason you don't write. I have not had but one letter from you. I have written five or six. Will is well. I sent sixty dollars to you by Isker Daring. I want you to write and tell me whether you have got it yet. The news is that we will leave here today but I don't believe it. Kiss the solger (soldier) boy for me.
I wrote a letter to you and mother Sunday.
This from your unworthy son
S.D. Mickey
Sunday Morning April 17
Dear mother and father and brothers and sisters and Grandmother it is with the greatest of pleasure that I seat myself to write you a few lines to let you know that and hoping when those few lines come to hand they will finde all well and enjoying yourselves well.
I enjoy myself as well as I can. Will is well and so is Arthur.
Now father I have just come from dinner. I will tell you what it consisted of; Beans, Bacon, Hard Tack, and cold water. Well that is enough for a man when he is well. I have had a turn of the diarrhea that slow me down considerably. But I am well now and hearty. I do not know how much but some of the boys says I will weigh one hundred and fifty and I do not doubt it. For when I was in Madison I weighed
152 lbs. Will says he weighs 140 but I don't think he's doing well.
I have no news of importance to write this time. Now mother I want to say a few words to you if you want to make me happy. Don't go out washing nor work out for my one, if for I when I come home. I want to see you and if you wash I never expect to.
Let my dear little brother wear my cap and when I get my pay I will send him 2 dollars to buy him a new one. Kiss him for me. I tell you, you don't know how much good it does me to get a letter from home.
I have written to old Mick and have not had any answer yet. I intend to write some to Eugene Smith today. Well I must close. Good bye for this time. Write soon and often. Don't worry for me.
This from your son to his parents.
Samuel Mickey's father William Elery Mickey had served in the same regiment and Company, prior to Samuel enlisting, but was mustered out after contracting hepatitis in March of 1862. Samuel's brother-in-law, Leonard C. Norton, also served in the Wisconsin 3rd Regiment, Company H, but was mustered out on March 27,1863 due to wounds received at Antietam.
The following is the text of two letters found in the Pension Request file of Samuel Mickey's mother: File #229682. Samuel was killed on May 25th....just weeks after these two letters were penned.
Camp Randall Feb 23
Dear Father it is with great pleasure that I seat myself to write you a few lines to let you know how I am. Well and and all of you are the same. We don't know when we leave here but expect before long. I wrote that we would leave Monday but I don't know when we will leave.
I don't know what is the reason you don't write. I have not had but one letter from you. I have written five or six. Will is well. I sent sixty dollars to you by Isker Daring. I want you to write and tell me whether you have got it yet. The news is that we will leave here today but I don't believe it. Kiss the solger (soldier) boy for me.
I wrote a letter to you and mother Sunday.
This from your unworthy son
S.D. Mickey
Sunday Morning April 17
Dear mother and father and brothers and sisters and Grandmother it is with the greatest of pleasure that I seat myself to write you a few lines to let you know that and hoping when those few lines come to hand they will finde all well and enjoying yourselves well.
I enjoy myself as well as I can. Will is well and so is Arthur.
Now father I have just come from dinner. I will tell you what it consisted of; Beans, Bacon, Hard Tack, and cold water. Well that is enough for a man when he is well. I have had a turn of the diarrhea that slow me down considerably. But I am well now and hearty. I do not know how much but some of the boys says I will weigh one hundred and fifty and I do not doubt it. For when I was in Madison I weighed
152 lbs. Will says he weighs 140 but I don't think he's doing well.
I have no news of importance to write this time. Now mother I want to say a few words to you if you want to make me happy. Don't go out washing nor work out for my one, if for I when I come home. I want to see you and if you wash I never expect to.
Let my dear little brother wear my cap and when I get my pay I will send him 2 dollars to buy him a new one. Kiss him for me. I tell you, you don't know how much good it does me to get a letter from home.
I have written to old Mick and have not had any answer yet. I intend to write some to Eugene Smith today. Well I must close. Good bye for this time. Write soon and often. Don't worry for me.
This from your son to his parents.
Bio by: Keith Olson
Inscription
Co. "H", 3rd Wisconsin Inf.
Gravesite Details
Enlisted on 1/5/1864, and was mustered in on the same day. Samuel was killed at New Hope Church, Ga. on 5/25/1864.
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