2024-07 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/13/2024
Enormous Letter and Artifact grouping of William Hervey Coffin who enlisted on August 9, 1862 and mustered into Co. C, 39th Iowa Infantry as a private on August 27, 1862. He mustered out of the regiment on June 5, 1865 at Washington, D. C. There are a total of 140 letters chronologically held in four 3-ring binders, mostly written to his wife and transcribed. The letters were published in a book, "Love Letters From The Civil War" by John Chapman, William's great grandson.
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