2024-01 Raynors Americana Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/20/2024
Alabama Confederate soldier's3pp. pencil letter written by William H. Doster who enlisted on 6/15/1862 as a Private into "B" Co. AL Hilliard's 2nd Infantry. Datelined Dinwiddie Co. VA., September 3, 1864. In part, "I will give you a sketch of the crops in this country. Corn is very good and everything else. I have ate more corn than I ever ate in my life. ... We will go on Picket tomorrow and I think we will have some fun ... The Yanks are saucy. We lost 14 men in the last two fights, four killed on the field, nine wounded and one missing. I am in hopes the war will soon come to a close ..."
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