Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
A good war-date Union soldier's letter, 3pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. Henry H. Fulton, Co. E, 20th Ohio Vols. [shot by Rebel guerrillas near Pine Level, N. C.,4/10/65; DOW Raleigh, 4/12/65], Vicksburg, Miss., Feb. 3, [1864], in part: "We are under marching orders…we are going out in the interior of Mississippi by way of Jackson and Meridian. There is a large force going from here. Troops have been landing here for several days and a part of the Army of the Cumberland is coming down across the country and they expect to bag a force under Johnson stationed at different points on the Central rail-road…there is a flat piece of country laying between the bluffs here and the Yazoo river which is full of lakes and bayous and the men have been in the habit of going there to fish. A few days ago ten men went…with a team and came back with 2,500 lbs of fish weighing from 10 to 100 lbs each. They were mostly cat fish…these lakes are full of alligators and gars and it would be dangerous fishing in warm weather…Henry." The original stamped transmittal cover is included. VG
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