2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
War-date Union Veteran Reserve Corps officer's letter, 4pp. 4to., written in pencil by Lt. York Amos Woodward, Barracks Co. B 24th VRC, May 8, 1865, reads, in part: "...I flatter myself that you do feel anxious for your soldier cous. and would very probably like to hear how the typhoid which has been claiming all my time and attention for the last 13 days is progressing, and I am happy to be able to say that it is not progressing at all, but has left me entirely but as weak as a child. You would hardly know me I have been so much reduced in flesh, I knew I was some thinner but was really surprised when I looked in the glass...there are parts of 2 or 3 days that I can recollect nothing about and during that time the Dr. says that I was perfectly delirious...Every time I look at the crape on my arm I think of the sabbath eve, that we walked from Dr. R's church, how you jumped when you took my arm because you felt something 'crawley.'...". For a period of several weeks after the assassination, all Union officer's were ordered to wear morning bands on their arms to honor the fallen president. Woodward served in the 34th Pennsylvania and was wounded during the battle of Fredericksburg before going into the veteran reserve corps. Minor dampstains, else VG.
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