Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
War-date Union soldier's letter, 6pp. 4to., written by Pvt. Thomas J. Bond, Co. G, 2nd Ohio Vols., Murfreesboro, Tenn., May 30, 63, in part: "…let the girls of Alexandria start all the reports they please. They will not hurt me…I know that they are not true. I know it was not long after she saw the letter [that] Frank received…hur [letter] and also hur photograph and the report about Frank dressed in a rebel suit and burning a [? It] is not so for he has not been away from camp since we came back. He is at General Scribner's Head Quarters. Now he belongs to his escort. He has to carry orders to the regiments in our brigade. He do[es] not have nay more hard tramps…he has a horse to ride and he carried a saber like the one Uncle Ed has…if the Rebs should come after us they will go away…for they will not want…we have got some big dogs in our forts. When they bark it is not good for the health. Rosy has started a soap factory in the vicinity of Murfreesboro. He is making quite an improvement in property…Thomas J. Bond." Light soiling, else VG
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