2009-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/31/2009
A great war-date Union soldier's letter, 4pp 8vo., written in ink, by Pvt. Henry Elmer, Battery B, 4th United Sates Artillery, Warrington, Va., Jan. 10, 1863 concerning being attacked by marauding guerrillas, in part: "…the doctor won't give me any medicine. The colonel is going to get me some Brandy…the boys are very busy putting up winter quarters. It is hard to get mud to dok [?] them now…the guerrillas got round us they are very plenty here. The other night they came in and fired on the 3[rd] Pennsylvania [and] killed and wounded 15 of them. Tuck a good many horses and then left. There was about tow hundred of them. They are the werst men we have to contend with…if I had a laso I would put them out of the road…in the day time you can see them at their houses drest in sitisens clothes. At night they play soldier…I would stop that game…the rebs are certainly bad off. A great many of them have no shoes…Samuel Miller is well and harty. Yoder the same. They tent with me…". VG.
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