Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
Union soldier's war-date letter, 3pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. Montgomery Hickman, Co. I, 97th Illinois Vols., Morganza, La., July 31, 1864, to his wife, in part: "…instead of going East we came to this place which is about 200 miles from above Orleans just below the mouth of Red River…we…find great difference between this kind of soldiering and the kind we had in the city…I don't know hardly what they brought us here for but suppose it is to fight as the rebs are a few miles out…in the country. There is a large force collecting here…it is very likely we are going up Red River. The 80th Ills. and the 11th Ills. got here…from Vicksburg besides several other Regts…I have seen several of the 8th boys. It is an awful dirty, hot place where we are camped, not a bit or anything of the kind…M. Hickman." The original stamped transmittal cover is included. VG
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