
The collection of wartime correspondence written by Private John Fletcher Hamlin, of Company D, 1st Pennsylvania Rifles, are provided to us courtesy of his his direct descendant, Judith Schaechter of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hamlin was recruited from Warren County, Pennsylvania in August of 1861 and served nearly to the wars end, when he was unfortunately killed in the fighting at Petersburg, Virginia in June 1864.
The John F. Hamlin Letters
Letter from John F. Hamlin to his Mother, [March] 6th, 1864 at Bristoe Station
Letter from John F. Hamlin to his Father, May [2 or 12], 1864
Letter from John F. Hamlin to his Father, Sept. 20, 1863
Letter from John F. Hamlin to his Mother, June 1, 1864, Camp in the Field
Letter from George W. Chase to Hamlin's Mother, July 4, 1864 near Petersburg, Virginia
Letter from John F. Hamlin to his Mother, March 9, 1864 at Bristoe Station
Letter from George W. Chase to Hamlin's Mother, July 24, 1864
Letter from John F. Hamlin to his Mother, Sept. 17, 1863
Personal Effects of John F. Hamlin, Killed in Action
John Fletcher Hamlin’s service record:
Enlisted as a Private on 12 August 1861 in Company D, 13th Pennsylvania Reserves (1st PA Rifles)
Nov-Dec 1861 reported absent; sick in hospital
Transferred in Batty B 1st Light Artillery Regiment Pennsylvania on 04 June 1862.
Transferred Batty B 1st Light Artillery Regiment Pennsylvania on 24 February 1863
Transferred in Company D, 13th Pennsylvania Reserves (1st PA Rifles) 24 February 1863.
Transferred to 190th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, Company. D, Dec. 1863
Killed in Action, Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864