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, ink Camp at Pulaski, Tenn., Nov. 30, 1863, reading, in part:"...I think it is a curious thing why your father does not write to you nor to me, I think that their patriotism is not very strong or some thing in the young man or else he would write to me, but he don't care one grain if you are dead or alive and he would rather hear of my death than of my coming home, the cowardly cuss, for he is afraid to hear the cannons roar and the rifles crash for fear that it might break some of his cowardly Copperhead bones...but I should be so lucky as to come home less I will give him a soldiers blessing and that will be a rough blessing you may be sure...". 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. Fine.
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