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Letters from War: 1861 | Pottsville Soldier in Philadelphia
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Letters from War: 1861 | Pottsville Soldier in Philadelphia
Lieutenant William Wainwright Potts sat down in his quarters on April 25, 1861 to pen a letter to Benjamin Bannan, the editor of the Miners’ Journal in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. The 29-year-old officer had only been mustered into the service three days earlier at Harrisburg, but had quickly been sent on to Philadelphia with his unit, the 6th Pennsylvania Infantry. W.W. Potts in the uniform of the 48th Pennsylvania – a unit he served in later in…
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