2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
War-date Autograph Letter Signed by Alfred Coddington, 1st Michigan Light Artillery, who died of disease at Murfreesboro, and is buried at the National Cemetery at Stone River, 3p. octavo, December 23, 1864, with cover, it reads in part: “...day before yesterday is the first time the mail has come through for over three weeks. The rebs cut the railroad so that we did not get any mail or provisions from Nashville. Our rations got so short that we did not get only half rations...but we will draw full rations next Sunday...you have heard about the fight that we had and the fight at Nashville before this will get there. The rebs came up one day so that we could see them with the field glass and the next morning the sixth and the 7th we fired a few shots at them with our big guns and I tell you they scattered. I tell you when them big shells struck amongst them there was a considerable excitement here. For a long time the provisions got rather low but we stayed through and now I think we will get some more. Now you wanted to know if our tents leaked, no, we have got log shantes to live in this winter...you ought to see the infantry in the rainy and cold weather lay right on the ground and have nothing but the pup tents to slap under and them are nothign but a piece of factory about as big as a sheet...” VG.
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