Raynors HCA 2017-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/7/2017
War-date Union soldier's letter, 3pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. Daniel D. Barrows, Signal Corps, [formerly 9th Maine Vols.], Morris Island, S. C., Oct. 7, 1864, in part: "…I have not yet received my state bounty but expect it soon and I have no doubt but I could get a own bounty…as my enlistment goes to help fill this last or previous call…I am making a little most every day and I will see the sutlers d-d before they shall have a cent of it as five dollars a day among them robbers would not keep a man in pea nuts. They charge 80 cts per pound for butter, 1.50 for tobacco, 10 cts to look into a tumbler where there has been soda…there is a street at Hilton Head with nothing but sutler's stores…call[ed] Robbers' Row, rightly named. If a sutler gets a good show out here his fortune is made. The [54th] Mass. Colored Troops have just got paid off for the first time in six months. I tell you they make the money fly. I cleared $3.00 today [gambling?]…I calculate that I am Yankee enough to get along in a crowd as three years experience in the army will give one a little insight into human nature…we have a new district commander, Genl. Scamman, an Ohio man. He looks like business, but it is hard judging shoulder strap by looks…Daniel D. Barrows". A copy of a war-date image of Robber's Row taken by New Hampshire photographer Henry P. Moore who operated a gallery on Hilton Head is included. VG. (Photocopy of Robber's Row included).
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