2023-03 HCA Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/7/2023
Union Soldier's 4pp letter, with original cover, written by 1st Sgt. Job Barnard, who mustered into "K" Co. IN 73rd Infantry, 8/16/62 and mustered out on 7/1/1865 at Nashville, TN. Datelined, Big Piney Creek, Memphis & Charleston, R. R, Limestone Co. Ala, Sunday, Sept 18, 1864. In part, "We had a very pleasant evening indeed, joining the notes of the flute with the voices of 2 or 3 vocalists, and reviving sweet thoughts of home by the familiar old Glees... The reverberations of Sherman's heavy artillery are just dying away amid the hills of Georgia while the 'Great Chicago Surrender' by Bayard Taylor has ceased to open our eyes with calm astonishment and placid good humor with which we greeted the first dispatch from that quarter ..." Job then writes of how he finishes his night, "We have read 'Locksley Hall', 'The May Queen', 'Lady Clara Vere de Vere' ... I told Charley I wanted Longfellow or Bryant this evening ... 'Paul Revere's Ride', 'Death of Flowers', Evangeline' .... I don't like Tennyson as well as Holmes, Longfellow ... He always leaves so much for the mind to guess at ...."
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