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., Richmond, Va., June 7, 1865, in part: "…I thought I would be on my way to Philadelphia before this time but we are still here…and I cant tell anything about our getting away…I sometimes get so mad that I get a swearing at these officers as they got their rolls wrong and I believe that they don't want to get them rite as some of them is afraid that they cant work or is too lazy to work and they get a big pay here but I hope it will soon play out…some of them is in a bad fix so as they are not fit to go to their families as they are not sick and not well in some places but I hope that it will all come to daylight before long…I have learned somethings since I am lout as i seen in this few months more than I ever seen. I learned just enough to know what a bad officer is in the army…I myself cant complain…but I had to swallow many a thing that I thought tasted pretty bitter…I will tell you that I had quite a time with my body guard [lice] but I believe I got boys over them as I cant find any of them for about 1 week and I think I am all rite. You had ugh to see me work trying to get rid of them…D. W. Moser." Moser's German dialect phonetic spelling has mostly been corrected. Light stains, else VG
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