Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
Union soldier's war-date letter, 2pp. 4to., written by Pvt. Montgomery Hickman, Co. I, 97th Illinois Vols., New Orleans, La., Dec. 8, 1863, to his wife, in part: "…Laura said you had told her that Jim Wicker was in St. Louis…that is mistaken. He is here but in the "St. Louis" Hospital. Poor Jim he is a kind o' dilapidated…Doc. Wicker expects to start home in a few days…he had his feet badly mashed and can now barely hobble about. Brit. Robinson [his leg was broken] they say will always be very lame. [All these men were wounded in a train accident.] I hope you will not be frightened when you open this letter and see what is in it…I hear you now exclaim, 'What in the D-l is it!' Don't you think it would be a good thing…to hang up in a cornfield when the crows are bad?…you have been tormenting me a long time for a true likeness…and now that you have it I hope you will love it…I am pretty sure of one thing. You will never ask for another one…I didn't know I was so ugly before…it would make "Old Abe" feel sorry. But, ugly as it is…I sent a copy to a very nice young lady…we soldiers are all in gay spirits upon hearing how old Grant has been putting the rebs through in Georgia but it makes the sesesh here look savage…M. Hickman." The original transmittal cover is included. Minor soiling, else VG
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