Raynors HCA 2017-02
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War-date Union soldier's letter, 4pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. John S. Fleming, Co. K, 67th Penn. Vols., "Head Quarters Co. K, 67th Pa. Vols., Mar. 5, 1864", in part: "…I was away on a three days scout, come back and then had to gow four days on picket…there will be…drill today. This word fills this time. Now it is quinine call. Come you sick, lame and lasy, but I have quit taking thare quinine and I am glad of it…the Sixth Corps and one division of our sent on [a] scout last Saturday and all of our cavalry…we [?] her any thing from Old Kilpatrick, but I believe he will take Richmond…I cant see how the Johneys can hold out when we get all of our armies in motion. We now have a grate army…in the southwest under very skillful generals. General Sherman is walking right through the Confederacy knocking them higher than a kite and just ding as he pleases…while Banks and old Beast Butler as the rebs calles him is lying in the James river watching thare every move while hear lies the Army of the Potomac the mighty Bull Dog of all the armies. I don't believe this army will ever move…unless he falls back and if he leaves his intenchments. He is a whipped man and if he stays he will starve. If our Western army luck leads in holding Florida and Tennessee for their hay supply…he cant live in Virginia…I don't believe we will hear any whipper willows this spring unless they come from the north with thare knapsacks and 8 days rashines in them. You cant imagine what a dreary…desolate region of country this is. You might travel…and not see as many rails as would fence a potato patch and very few houses. What few thare is we have to feed thare wives and children while the husband and father is in armies against us. It seems a little hard but it would not be Christian like to let them starve…I must tell you I was very near being a Vet. I promised to enlist when my to years would come us but the colonel failed to get transportation and furrows for the 18 month men so that lets me out…we have got new flags again and [that] makes a fellow feel a good deal better. They cost 5 hundred dollars. I hope the Johneys wont get this one. They are the pride and glory of the soldiers and when they are gone it makes a fellow feel as if all his friends was dead. We have had one with black letters on it marked Winchester in honoring for the ones we lost…John S. Fleming…". His phonetic spelling has mostly been corrected. Light soiling, else VG
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