Raynors HCA 2018-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/21/2018
War-date Union soldier Autograph Letter Signed by John Posey, 55th Massachusetts Infantry, 4pp. quarto, October 30, 1864, Folly Island, South Carolina, and reads in part: “...I am cheerful soldier so far away from home and in my hopes...The wrathy rebels must be slain. We have started up the steps and as we are on the step that is higher than common on my principles, I will stand with Enfield rifle on my shoulder with my comrades. I will die or freedom be made whole. As for democracy, we do not fear. Uncle Sam is our guide and the channel he will make clear. He is honest and worthy of the praise of the colored population if nobody else. For my part, I trust that the Providence may aid him to carry on the war to the destruction of miserable rebellion and be the death of the victims thereof. I will stay in field willingly until my term is up...I will obligate myself to swing them three years more for I am sure if they will put as many more coons in the field that we can, we will make old Lee that he is whipped and if he is near sighted we are able give him a pair of horse leather goggles and damned if he don’t both see and feel soon the banner of rebeldom fall beneath depth of soil while thousands of their friends most be found in the earth and in eternity - their principles of their friends must be found in the earth and in eternity - their principles put to flight - and on the sandy shores of America be once and forever free...The opposers of justice shall no longer remain before you see or feel and enjoy the legal rights of America. You may have to go through almost fire but it will come after all....” Fine condition.
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