Raynors HCA 2019-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/21/2019
War-date Union soldier Autograph Letter Signed by John M. Atwood, 29th Massachusetts Infantry, 4pp. octavo, Germantown, August 27, 1862, and reads in part: “... I had a pretty hard time with one of the boys last night, he was drunk and noisy out 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 ook 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 in 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 mout with my fist and hew as glad to let go although I knocked the skin all of my fist doing it, for I 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...” Fine condition.
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