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/pencil by Pvt. John W. Boston, Co. G, 81st Ohio Vols, Camp in the field before Huntsville, [Ala.], May 2, 1864, reading, in part: "...I expect we will go to Atlanta, Georgia...We will go either toward Atlanta or Dalton, Georgia...if we have it so good as we have had it from the town of Pulaski to this the handsomest town that I have ever seen in the Southern Confederacy it is on the rail road from Memphis to the City of Charleston, South Carolina, by the way of Chattanooga, Tennessee...There is a fight going on at Ringgold and we were marching on foot for Chattanooga but yesterday to hurry up to Larksinville to take train for Chattanooga and we had a forced march to this place...we are going to have a lively Spring campaign and I am of the opinion that we will have to do a good deal of marching..." 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. About VG.
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