2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
War-date Union soldier's letter, 4pp. 8vo., written in ink by Pvt. John W. Boston, Co. G, 81st Ohio Vols, Camp at Pulaski, Tenn., Nov. 22, 1863, reading, in part: "...were yesterday relieved by Co. A 81st Regiment and we came to Pulaski again...there is some talk that our brigade is to go to Columbia on the rail road from here to Nashville...General Dodge commands the left wing of the 16th Army Corps and General Sweeny the 2 Division...". Boston enlisted, at age 29, in late summer 1862 and fought at the battles of Corinth, Atlanta and Bentonville, N. C. He lived to 1918 dying August of that year. VG.
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