Raynors HCA 2017-12
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Good war-date Union soldier's letter, 3pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. William S. Ellsworth, Co. G, 1st Louisiana (Union) Cavalry, "Head Quarters 1 La. Cavalry, Jan. 23," [1864], in part: "…we are having pretty rough times here now. We are on the advance post and we are constantly annoyed by the enemy. Their pickets are in sight of our[s]…we are about one hundred miles from New Orleans. I have just got back to my Regt. having bin a prisoner for t[w]o months with the Confederates. I do not think the was war will last much longer. The Confederate soldiers are getting sick of fighting. They are deserting almost every day and coming into our lines and taking the oath of allegiance… a great many join the Yankee army as they call us. There is a vast difference between the way their army subsists and our army. All they get is corn meal but they have to cook it…they have to cloth themselves, find their horses and get eleven dollars a month in Confederate money which is not worth but ten sense [cents] to the dollar…they would give ten dollars of thare money for one of our[s]…how are times up in old Brookfield. How did the draft rate. I have the list of the men drafted in Brookfield. Thare is some names which I was glad to see, but I suppose a good many…paid the three hundred dollars and staid…home…Wm. S. Ellsworth. Direct to William Ellsworth, 1 Louisiana Cavalry, Co. G in care of Capt. F[rancis] M. Ive." Minor toning, else VG.
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