Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
War-date Union soldier's battle letter, 4pp. 8vo., written by Private David W. Moser, 199th Penn. Vols., "Camp near Appomattox Court House, Va., April 11, 1865," in part: "…I am still in the land of the living yet and in the best of health and spirits…we was in a fight on Sunday last [battle before Lee's surrender at Appomattox]…I got out safe and…so did all the Hyde Park boys…tell George Bratfurt sigh that he is all rite…we left camp in front of Richmond on the 27th of March and went to Hatcher's Run in front of Petersburg…..there was was till the 2 day then the fight took place…the bits had a hot time of it, but they was all safe that was foam Hyde Park…only Fred Jones…was wounded in the shoulder and David Jones out of Company I lost his rite leg. He is a brother of Marchal Jones…I seen him at the hospital after his leg was taken off. I was not in that fight as I was on picket, but I was in on Sunday last and it was mighty hot for awhile but we got old Lee and his whole army surrounded…he surrendered his whole forces in this place…I should have wrote sooner but we could not get any male off and I am not sure if I can get this off for a few days…I believe that all the fighting is over and the war and everything will soon come rite…D. W. Moser." Moser's German dialect phonetic spelling has mostly been corrected. Light stains, else VG
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