Raynors HCA 2018-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/15/2018
War-date Union brevet brigadier general's letter, 3pp., 8vo., written by then 1st Lieut. John Willian, Jr. (1835-1869), Co. D, 6th New Jersey Vols., "Camp Baker, [Meridian Hill, Arlington Heights, Va.], Feb. 16, 1862," in part: "…there is a strong probability of our moving somewhere…we are getting supplied with cannel boats…our Regt is getting rather unhealthy. We have quite a number of very dangerous cases of Typhoid Fever. We buried one from our Company on Friday. A young man from Camden named Ross. We have 2 more cases in our company…it is a sorrowful sight to see the poor fellows buried…here though they get a very nice funeral consisting of a whole company…full band…we are compelled to bury them now unless their friends come after them in which case we & the Company will pay the expenses of the corpse over the railroad…Thursday I was on duty at the depot near where the boats land…I went to see if our Col. [Later General Gershom Mott] had come down…J. Willian." Minor spotting, else VG
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