letters

Peter Boyer (1862-1865)

Peter Boyer was a private in Company C, 117th Pa., a regiment which included several other companies that were from Franklin County. In February 1863, Boyer’s company was assigned to escort General George Meade’s Fifth Corp of the Army of the Potomac. Boyer became frustrated with the mundane duties that this assignment entailed, and he writes about his feelings in these letters to his father (also named Peter Boyer) and his brothers John D. Boyer, Cyrus Boyer, and Daniel Boyer. He also writes about the 117th’s engagements in northern Virginia, including battles at Cold Harbor and Petersburg.