Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
War-date Union soldier's letter, 4pp. 4to., written by Pvt. Thomas J. Bond, Co. G, 2nd Ohio Vols., Murfreesboro, Tenn., May 16, 63, in part: "…the sun is most awful hot in the sunny south…we are going to stay here all summer. I hope we will for it is a nice place and I do not want to march anymore while the war lasts…Frank said he did not care how much Kirk Sheves goes with Gin Scott for…he is going to New Hampshire to get a woman for his wife…tell Mel to tell that tall flaxen haired, cucumber nose & beautiful girl to get a husband…soldiers want nothing to with a wife of a rebel …they want nothing to do with a Southern belle for we see enough of them…tell her to to go down in the cellar and get a pie…or I will shoot the pistol off and then…she will go . Give her my best respects and a mince pie. Tell her she never gave me that pin cushion that she promised…Uncle Charles…will not believe that is my picture…I did not think that I had altered so much…so that no person would know me…Frank said he danced 3 sets last night…he was at a dance at Col. Scribner's. There was several ladies there. We have some fine times and a serenading. We have a guitar…banjo, violin…brass flute and four singers. we were out last night…did not get back till 2 o'clock this morning…some of them is out tonight again…Thomas J. Bond." Light soiling, else VG
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