Raynors HCA 2018-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/21/2018
A good Union soldier’s 4 page letter written by John Murrey Atwood, who enlisted 5/18/1861 as a sergeant into Ma. 29th Infantry and was mustered out 8/13/1864. The letter is signed Murrey, datelined Germantown Aug. 27, 1862. Murrey has been recuperating in the hospital and relates an incident that he had the handle. In part, “I had a pretty hard time with one of the boys last night, he was drink and noisy our on the street after nine o’clock and I ordered him to go into the hospital and he would not do it. So I just took him by the collar and started him and he showed a fight. I then knocked him down and got some of the other boys to help me put him n the guard house, although I got considerably scratched up by it and so did the other boys. He bit me pretty hard once on the leg, but I just struck him right in the mouth with my fist and he was glad to let go although I knocked the skin all off of my fist in doing it, for a struck right against his teeth. We have a good many hard cases to take care nearly every day they go out and get drunk and that makes trouble for us.”
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