Headquarters Co F, 5th Regiment N Y Volunteers Cheesemans
Landing Virginia May 4th 1862 My Dear Father
yours of the 23d & 28th of A[ril are before me & as I am off duty to day will
answer them I also receivd the Advertiser of 28th & Transcript 27th the letters
& papers are sure to reach me although the mails are by o means regular
I generally get the papers bout A week after they are mailed the letters
reach me about three days after they are mailed if I dont mention the
paper it is because I forget it, I will try in future to mention every paper
I received. I supose you would like to know where Cheeseman Landing is
Cheeseman landing is at the head of cheesemans Creek, I cant write any
more Yorktown is evacuated our troops are in possession that is just what
I expected, in my last letter to Lizzie I wrote that there would not be any
Fight at Yorktown the news of the evacuation was received since I comm
enced this letter of course I am all excitement, & cant write any more we
also have the rumor of the Capture of Norfolk & the Merrimac
your son George
Letters from George Leavitt of the 5th New York and his brother Joseph of the 5th Maine were copied into a
ledger by their father John Leavitt in October 1865 "because they are of
value to me and I was fearful that they might get mislaid." Both boys
were mortally wounded in the war, George at Second Bull Run, August 30,
1862, and Joseph at Spotsylvania, May 18, 1864.
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