Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
Union soldier's war-date letter, 3pp. folio, written by Pvt. Montgomery Hickman, Co. I, 97th Illinois Vols., Nicholasville, KY, Nov. 9, 1862, to his wife, in part: "…we have been passing the time very quietly since we came to this place…the camp is full of wild rumors…about peace going to be made which of course is only believed by those homesick persons who haven't the heart or courage to stand up for their country like men…I would like to see you very much…but if I wanted to leave the service of my country when she needs my help, as bad as a great many here do, I would deserve to be shot. I never want to see your face against unless I can do so with honor, and I know my little wife is not the one who will encourage her husband to desert…you speak very often as though I might fall or sicken and die and we never be permitted to see each other again…you should not give way to such sad desponding feelings…I would do no such taughty trick under any consideration…M. Hickman." The original transmittal cover is included. VG
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