Fight for Freedom!

Encampment of the A company, XXXI Penn. Vols. February the 28th 1862

Dear Lis,

As you know, I received my commission as a lieutenant in the new regiment that is being raised in Central Pennsylvania, the XXXI Pennsylvania Volunteers. I have started my camp life and I can proudly say that I don’t miss the commodities that can be found in a city like our beloved Philadelphia. The joy to serve our country and to fight for the freedom of all the people on earth fills all my needs…Well, except not having you with me.

Every day new recruits are arriving to full fit our ranks and in few days we will be marching to the front. We have settled a small encampment for our company: A company XXXI Penn. Vols. There are people from all over the state. From Philadelphia lawyers like the captain to students from the Pennsylvania State University with the main lot being farmers from Bellefonte, Boalsburg, Scranton or Port Matilda.

I think that this war is not going so well for the Union. Maybe the government will use our regiment in a new offensive or perhaps in a raid in enemy territory. What is for sure is that they won’t use us in guard duty or frontier watch.

Hopefully, we are fighting in the side of the liberty and the truth so God is with us.

Every day I pray for you and our two daughters.

Your husband who deeply loves you

Joseph Waterwell.

ACW Union Infantry (V). Final details

Well, at last! This step has been too long. All the hairs, metal parts, blanket rolls, officers, artillery... But I've finished them. Well, not really. Now they still need the bases, the Army painter touch and the varnish.

ACW Union Infantry (IV). Shoes and leather parts

Shoes, cartridge packs, belts and bags and kepi's peaks are painte in valleho black and flat earth.

ACW Union infantry (III). Flesh and pants

After undercoating the miniatures, faces, hands and pants are painted using vallejo Basic skintone and vallejo sky blue.

ACW Union infantry (II). Texture on the base and undercoat.

After mounting the miniatures I added sand to the bases and undercoated them using The Army Painter Ultramarine blue spray. Now I only need to paint them...

The black primmed miniatures are the cannon and some samurais for a boardgame.

ACW Union infantry (I). Mounted and based.

My new project keeps going. In my birthday I received a brigade of Perry miniatures consisting in three boxes of plastic infantry, two guns and a general. Since this will be done in conjuction with my friend Francesc, My company for Terrible Sharp Sword will have 1 box and a half and a gun.

Here I post the beginning with the items received and the miniatures mounted and glued onto bases (from Renedra). They will be part of a ficticious regiment: XXXI Pennsylvania Volonteers. 31 because is my age and PA vols because I lived one year in central PA and I liked the place and the people there.

I will try to do as mister DeanM of WAB corner and paint them as a lot but I think I won't be that fast.

Feliç 2012

Benvolguts companys,

Us desitjo a tots un feliç 2012. No deixeu de pintar, penseu que durant aquest any que comença celebrarem el bicentenari de la campanya de Rússia, el de la batalla de los Arapiles i el 150 aniversari de la Guerra Civil Americana entre molts altres events.

A disfrutar-lo

Oriol