Raynors HCA 2017-12
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/7/2017
A good war-date Confederate soldier's letter, 2pp. folio, written by a private who was been appointed an aid to "Dr. Miller" for which work he got twenty-five cents a day extra, "Camp near Centre[ville, Va.], Oct. 28, 1861, reading, in part: "…the coat has not arrived yet…it is getting cold here but everything is very quite…fortifications go up by masse every day. When we arrived here there was but one small breastwork now they loom up everywhere. Nothing at all about the Yankees. They seem…since the Leesburg fight which they acknowledge they were badly whipped. If they come here they will get most amply thrashed. We are in almost 500 yards of [?]…I think, as you, that we will thrash the Yankees without [?] as they will certainly see hard times this winter…we have plenty of coffee. You may feel assured that I will not be an advocate of the whiskey rations…". Minor soiling, else VG.
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