2023-03 HCA Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/7/2023
Confederate soldier's 2pp. letter to his wife, Dateline Fort Sumter, March 18, 1864. In part, "Duty is very heavy. We are up all night but sleep all day or the largest part of it. ... I don't know when we will be relieved ... But it is as good a place as camp when the Yanks are not shelling. ... The Yanks have not shelled any now in two days, and I think that they have got tired of the job. ... Last night we had an alarm, and I was in command of the 2nd detachment, and we were the first out of the parapet, but no Yanks came. ... There are three things here I don't like - shells, brickbats and lice. But a soldier can stand most anything. ... Tell your Pa that there are many thousand dollars worth of iron laying around this old fort. I expect ten steamboat loads of old shells. ...."
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