Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
A good war-date letter, 4pp. 8vo., written by William Newton Fulton, [n. p., but somewhere along the Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad in Indiana], Dec. 9, 1863, reading, in part: "As the cars are stopping a few moments in this place for dinner…we left Newark Monday evening and got to Cincinnati the next day. We went to the river immediately and tried to engage a passage but failed to get one as there was no boat going to leave this week…the fare by the river was nearly the same as by the cars so we concluded the cars would be the best way so we took the Indianapolis and St. Louis road…it is a going to cost us a great deal more than we expected. The railroad fare is so very high and we cant get a meal…for less than a half dollar and if you take a bed to sleep…you have to pay twenty five cts…these roads are so rough you cant write, sleep, nor think. I have run a good part of Ohio and Indiana…we are well and in good spirits. General says to tell his wife he will write to her as soon as as we get out there. He takes everything as cool as a cucumber…I think of you all twenty times a day and also of that pretty little girl I left behind me…Newton…we got our steel traps and everything we wanted in Cincinnati. N." The original stamped transmittal cover is included. Near fine.
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