2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
War-date Union soldier's letter, 2pp. folio., written in ink by Pvt. John W. Boston, Co. G, 81st Ohio Vols, [n. p., n. d., but Apr. 5, 1865]. In part: "...the report came to camp of 1500 hundred Johnnies coming in and giving themselves up. But I do not know if it is so or not...I am going to Department headquarters tomorrow and can find out...I hope to my pay before long before we start on another campaign...". Boston enlisted, at age 29, in late summer 1862 and fought at the battles of Corinth, Atlanta and Bentonville, N. C. He lived to 1918 dying in August of that year. VG.
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