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 U. S. Christian Commission stationery, by Private David W. Moser, 199th Penn. Vols., Richmond, Va., May 5, 1865, in part: "…I am more tired of soldiering than I had been at anytime as the war is over. It seems to me…we ought to be at home…we have not heard anything yet but a solider is not to know anything any how…I told you I was in the city but I am back with the company…I did not like the job they had for us. It was to go and visit the poor and see whether they was in need of rations from Uncle Sam…had to write a good deal and I thought I was not fit for the job and so I told them that I could not write and I got clear…I did not like the city…it is a nice well…you told me that that girl that sent her love…was a Copper Head…tell her that I said that as soon as the…soldiers…come home…we all was thus an Copper Head. You say that you was sorry that I was so lousy, but I got rid of all my animals since we come to this place…I had to throw everything away on the march, my woolen blanket…overcoat and knapsack. All I own…is 2 pair of trars and 2 shorts, 1 pr pants…one blouse…a cap and shoes…they are all near wore out…D. W. Moser." Moser's German dialect phonetic spelling has mostly been corrected. Light stains, else VG
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