Raynors HCA 2017-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/7/2017
Union letter written by (John) “Murrey” (Atwood) who enlisted on 5/18/1861 as a Sergeant into "E" Co. MA 29th Infantry . The four page letter is datelined “Germantown, Aug. 27th/62 and it reads in part, “I had a pretty hard time with one of the boys last night, he was drunk and noisy out on the street after nine o’clock and I ordered him to go into the hospital and he would not do it. So I just took him by the collar and started him and he showed a fight. I then knocked him down and got some of the other boys to help me put him in the guard house, although I got considerably scratched up by it and so did the other boys. He bit me pretty hard once on the leg, but I just struck him right in the mouth with my fist and he was glad to let go although I knocked the skin all off of my fist in doing it, for I struck right against his teeth. We have a good many hard cases to take care nearly every day they go out and get drunk and that makes trouble for us.....”
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