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. 25, 1864, in part: "…I will tell you what I heard 2 Rebs say yesterday that cum in our lines. I seen them. They come into a cook house where me and my buddy was getting our super. It was in my body's company cook house where they come in. They said here we are. We come over to have Christmas diner with you boys and we are glad of it…I asked them if there was anymore over there that didn't want diner and they said that there was and they said that their regiment would soon be all over to see us as they would not fight again as their regiment is most all drafted men…D. W. Moser." Moser's German dialect phonetic spelling has mostly been corrected. Minor soiling, else VG
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