2022-01 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/28/2022
Union soldier's letter 4pp., datelined Washington D.C., Jan. 2, 1862, written by H. P. Martin of the New York 7th Cavalry writes his mother, in pencil. In part: "...I was on guard New Years night and stood the relief...did not have to drill and most of them got passes out...about 3 o'clock they began to come in, some just right, others nicely drunk and dead drunk...we had a good New Year's dinner it was salt junk and beans...one man died Sunday...three died in our regiment since we have been here..." Additional content concerns men being jailed for going AWOL, threatening troops across the James, etc. Very good.
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