Raynors HCA 2018-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/21/2018
War-date Union soldier Autograph Letter Signed by Charles Nichols, 38th Massachusetts Infantry, 4pp. octavo, Stewart’s Mansion Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, September 21, 1862, and reads in part: “...One poor fellow...had both of his legs shot off in battle and he says that if anybody would give him some wooden legs, he would like to go into another battle....Our orders when we go on guard are, if anyone offers us any insult to run the bayonette through them or else shoot them dead on the spot, and I should do it if I had a chance, for you know that we are among rebels and we do not know who are friends to us and who are not...” Fine condition.
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