2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
War-date Union Veteran Reserve Corps officer's letter, 4pp. 8vo., written in ink by Lt. York Amos Woodward, Barracks Co. B 24th VRC, Wisewell Barracks, Washington, DC., Feb. 13, 1865, reads, in part: "...rumors are very plenty that our Regt is going to be ordered to Savannah, if so there will be more distance between us....we visited the 'Smithsonian Institute' in the morning and in the afternoon it was burned, it is a national loss and will be felt by all who visit Washington for the purpose of sight-seeing. Forty-four days since I have smoked any, don't you think I am getting along well unless I see some one smoking, I hardly think of it any more but cousin it was a real hard struggle for me to give it up. I smoked so much that it was getting almost as necessary to me as my meals, but I have quit. I have now said in earnest 'I will not yield.'...I am 'Officer of the Day' tonight and I will close and go and see that the lights are all put out, as it is after tattoo...". Woodward served in the 34th Pennsylvania and was wounded during the battle of Fredericksburg before going into the veteran reserve corps. Fine.
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