Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
War-date Union soldier's letter, 4pp. 8vo. and 2pp. 12mo., written by Private David W. Moser, 199th Penn. Vols., Richmond, Va., April 29, 1865, in part: "…I am in the middle of the city since yesterday…I am not sure what we are going to do. There was about one company sent out of our brigade…they say that we are here to go round the houses to see how bad the folks is off and see that there is none [that] gets support from our government only them that is really in need of it as most all the people wants to live off Uncle Sam…there is a great many hard up in this city…money is good for nothing. I have seen women with silk dresses this morning go to the commissary to get their rations off Uncle Sam and I seen many a one that looked to me as if they needed something to eat. Even some of the Rebel officers gets their rations here. It is hard but I cant pity them much but I pity the women and children…we got good news from Johnson…they say he has given up and if he has peace will soon come…we get some very sour faces here but…most of the people seem glad to see the Yankee soldiers…we are stationed in a house here…it has been some kind of a store so you see that I got in a house to live at last. I have a good chance to see the city of Richmond…I cant enjoy myself as I could at home. I don't like these Rebels as well as I do the people up north…I don't believe they will keep us very long any more…D. W. Moser." Moser's German dialect phonetic spelling has mostly been corrected. Light stains, else VG
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