2024-07 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/13/2024
A great war-date hand drawn Valentine Union soldier's letter, written and drawn by Pvt. George S. Campbell, Co. C., 1st Massachusetts Vols., [WIA Williamsburg, Va., May 5, 1862], "Camp near Brandy Station, Va., Feb. 15, 1864," to "My dear Cousin Alice", reading, in part: "- how is that black eyed Parker girl get along. The one I sang for at your house - have you been a skating much - has your mother attempted to make a spread eagle of herself on skates - we had a grand review also today to please the women that are out here visiting their husbands at Corps H. Q. So you see what we have to endure to please the sifter sects, march five miles with knapsack & canteens. I wish they would stay at home. This is no place for them. We have enough to do without them - we came near having a fight the other day but missed it quite lucky for once . Since I left Boston last I have been in three pitched battles and one skirmish, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, One Mile Run and the skirmish at Whapping Heights, Va. [July 23, 1863] and so far have not received a scratch expect a slight wound in my knapsack which tore a hole in my shirt and that was all. Lucky aint I - I don't care about seeing anymore fighting - Geo. S. Campbell, a Soger in the Army of the P-o-t-o-m-a-c."
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