Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
War-date Union soldier's letter, 4pp. 8vo., written by Private David W. Moser, 199th Penn. Vols., Dutch Gap, Va., Dec. 3, 1864, in part: "In this you will find a little piece of wood that was about 70 feet underground in the canal…this morning just after coming out of the mines I set myself down to answer your kind…letter…there was some heavy firing heard on the direction of Petersburg…or as they call it Bermuda Hundred…it lasted all day and part of last night…I seen that Dan Bry was drafted but you did not say whether he went or…whether he skedaddled which I will believe he will…tell This Houser to give you the list of drafted men of Hyde Park…so I can see who is drafted…I was some surprised that I was not drafted but I think they took me name out of the box…thare was another call for 5 hundred thousand men and if that is the case I will have a chance to tray a ticket yet and if not I will be contented as I am here…I am willing to due my duty as a soldier…I believe that is the best plan for a soldier as he has a great many more fiends the if he don't and [he] has to stand some punishment. For my part I have not had a man…say a cross word to me since I come in the army…tell McCann I said he should not be too hard on a soldier's wife in selling you your winter's meat and I hope you will get some cheap…D. W. Moser." Moser's German dialect phonetic spelling has mostly been corrected. Light stains, else VG
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