2009-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/31/2009
A rare war-date Sioux uprising soldier's letter, 3pp. 4to., written in ink by Pvt. David Ramsay, Co. B, 6th Minnesota Vols., Forest City, Minn., April 4, 1863 concerning building a fort the protect the countryside, in part: "…we are still building at this stockade. We have it almost done…the ground here is frozen…where we are digging the trenches for the stockade…the captain tells me…that Andrew has his discharge…he was on furlough and was about to return to the fort…I am not working today. I have a man working in my place…I took my gun and went up the river…this is an awful lonesome place. There is but two Girls in this place and two of them are Irish and the other Norwegian. It makes me feel as though I would dry up and blowaway…I am glad to hear that I have so many patriotic cousins…anybody that wont help to support the government is no friend of mine…you know what the people used to say about me and Andrew…there is the Ramsey boys they will be hanged or go to States prison before they become men…this saying sinks deep in my heart. It makes the very blood run cold in my veins…if I can't come back there a man you never may expect to see my face [again]…". VG.
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