Raynors HCA 2018-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/21/2018
A good war-date Union soldier's letter, 4pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. Benjamin F. Landan, Co. K, 3rd Penn. Heavy Artillery, to his friend Miss. Laura J. Morgan, reading, in part: "…I went out to the wharf and was sitting around their till I got tired of seeing the vessels coming in with wounded soldiers. It is a horrible sight to see so many men that have lost their limbs in this cruel war and so many lives lost…it will take thousands more till this rebellion is over. The news came to me while I was on guard the other day that I was dead. The noes came from my brother-in-law. He wrote to William Weaver stating that he had been in Sunbury and he heard that I was killed…he wrote the same day and told him that he saw me standing on my post…as for health I am as well as ever…the talk is that the war will soon be over…our captain [Eugene W. Sheibuner, dismissed from the service on Aug. 10, 1864] is a very wicked man. When we first came in the company he would curse some of the men and would threaten to knock them down with the butt of the musket and would call them blockheads. There is a good Union man from Simsbury that used to tent with me. He would say to me that he had a great notion to write to Gov. A. G. Curtin how the captain used his men…he wrote to his brother…his brother told him that he ought to know better…as a private soldier…he should cheer up and try to please his officers…then he might be promoted but I think that will not happen with him nor me…direct Benjamin F. Landon, Company K, 3rd Pa. Art., Fortress Monroe…". Some archival tape repairs to folds, else VG
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