Raynors HCA 2017-12
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/7/2017
A good war-date Union soldier's letter, 4pp. 4to., written, on patriotic stationery, by Pvt. Moses F. Whittemore, Co. C, 51st Ohio Vols., Nashville, Tenn., June 13, 1862, in part: "…one hundred and fifty men including myself went up to Shelby within this state…to guard the Gov. there who went there to make a speech. We went up on the railroad. We got there about 10 o'clock a. m…we marched to the stand which was 2 miles from the town. The Gov. delivered an excellent speech. His subject…was the war. There were about three thousand citizens out…besides a thousand soldiers…I noticed that all the bridges on the line of the railroad were new. The old ones having been burnt up by the secesh before we got possession of the railroad. The report came here that the rebels were about to attack Columbia, Tenn…yesterday morning 260 men of the 51st took the cars for that place…we did not find any enemy. They had either skedaddled…or else never had been there…we met with a bad accident on our way home to Nashville. A gun of one of the boys was accidentally fired off…the ball passed through the leg of three of them and lodged in the foot of the 4th…the train was immediately stopped and the surgeon of the regt. was called to the rail. After binding up this wounds we started again for Nash. at which place we got at 8 o'clock…Sam Brown our sutler is allowed to sell beer now on the condition that he will not sell more than two glasses per day to any one man. It is a good summer drink. Sixteen hundred men who were taken prisoners at Shiloh by the rebels arrived here about a week ago from Tuscaloosa, Ala. They were taken on Sunday the first day of the fight. They are on parole of honor. One of them is in our mess…Moses." Period ink blotches, else VG
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