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, on Christian Commission" stationery, by Private David W. Moser, 199th Penn. Vols., Dutch Gap, Va., Dec. 17, 1864, in part: "…before I left they was all ordered out to have a fight and I watched from 8 o'clock to half past 10 to see how they made out. Thay was fiting purty sharp bout our regiment was in the breast work in our camp, but they had fired no gun at that time, but they was fighting all day…Sam says that they whip the Joneys and took 150 prisoners…but I seen a man that seen 50 prisoners come to Butler's headquarters…D. W. Moser." Much more on their winter quarters. Moser's German dialect phonetic spelling has mostly been corrected. Minor soiling, else VG
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