2022-07 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/15/2022
Inexpensive Federal soldier’s letter written by Frank Ames , who on 11/15/1861 he mustered into "E" Co. ME 12th Infantry. He died of disease on 9/22/1863 at New Orleans, LA. Dateline Camp on the Weldon Railroad, Va., June 28, 1864. In part, “... Our Captain and three Lieutenants were taken prisoners ... Mother you must take this as cool as possible, for if the Rebs fight like this, they will,mget the entire Army. I have got all of John’s things ... but Mother he is a prisoner. They took all of our company but 19 men, but they will not get me. ... Mother, Johns has had rather hard luck. He has been wounded twice. He had just come back to his comapny ... he had the offer of going to the General Hospital, but he did not want to go, and now he is worse than dead I think. Mother when we had seventeen hundred ... we started from Washington., and we have got eighth hundred left. The rest are all gone ... We are on picket where the Rebs shoot at us considerable ...”
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