Raynors HCA 2018-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/21/2018
A rare Medal of Honor winner's war-date letter, 4pp. 8vo., 1st Sgt. Wilmon W. Blackmar, Co. K, 15th Penn. (Anderson Troop) Cavalry, Louisville, KY, June 1, 1863, to his mother, in part: "…the Surgeon has given me permission to remain in Lou. a little while longer and has also given me permission to remain with my friends only reporting at the hospital occasionally…Miss. Browning, a young lady fr. Indiana is here on a visit. She is full of life and really a smart girl-we have great talks about black troops. She has a photograph of a young man and hearing of his having accepted a captaincy in a Colored Regt. she threw it into the slop pail. My friends here think, of course, it is an unpardonable sin to have anything to do with Black troops. I am quite contented here…I read out loud to the ladies while they are sewing…I ride with the ladies most every fair evening. They are very kind to show me the beautiful spots near Lou…Mrs. T. says you must not feel too grateful on my account as she is…paying her debts as her sons have been away and sick and they have always found friends…her heart was made glad by receipt of a letter via Havana…fr. her son in the Rebel army whom she has heard but twice since the war began…Wilmon." Near fine.
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