Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
War-date Union soldier's letter, 2pp. 8vo., written by Private David W. Moser, 199th Penn. Vols., "Camp Catvalinlar" [Cadwalader, Philadelphia], Sept. 28, 1864, in part: "we all cum hear on Monday…we don't know what they [are] going to do with us. Thay had so many new recruits here that they cant hardly tent all them. We cant tell what company or Regt we will go in or anything …there was a retreat of old soldiers cum here last night and they say that we ill se no fighting…they cum from Petersburg. Thay are a good many Scranton and Hyde Park boys in the regiment and they say the war will soon be over and I hope so…D. W. Moser." Moser's German dialect phonetic spelling has mostly been corrected. Minor toning, else VG
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