Raynors HCA 2017-12
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/7/2017
A good war-date Union artilleryman's letter, 4pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. Henry D. Isbell, Battery A, 1st Ohio Light Artillery [MWIA Chickamauga, Ga., 9/19/64; DOW 10/16/64 buried in Chattanooga National Cemetery], Camp Drake, [Murfreesboro, Tenn.], Apr. 11, 1863, in part: "…we have been on picket for the last week and…had orders to have three days rations in our haversacks…I am glad John Whitney had got home. He had been out a long time and had always done his duty. What a good time he will have at home with his Emmy…you say I should have been vaccinated before I left home. I have been since I came into the battery…it done first rate…I shan't have the small pox. You want to know if I should live to come home…if I should live to get home by next winter I should try and got to school…if I live to get home I don't think it will be before my three years are out. I don't see as our armies are doing anything and if they cant move mutch…I am good for my three years…I think John Wygle better talk. I did not enlist to make money, but I see most of the boys from Freedom did. When John was here if he had any money it done me as much good as it did him…that is he way with most of the boys. Most of them spend all their money. I have got through things with our sutler. He is a big hog as ever lived. We can get anything we want at the depot now, but it is a good deal of money for a little…Henry D. Isbell." VG
Click on a thumbnail above to display a larger image below
Hold down the mouse button and slide side to side to see more thumbnails(if available).
Click above for larger image.