2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/25/2025
A Union Civilian 4pp letter on patriotic letterhead, written by Joel D. Jameson who was a former resident of Franklin county, Missouri, where he worked as a carpenter prior to the Civil War. But sometime early in the war it appears that the tension between pro-Union and pro-secession residents, combined with a decline in work, caused him to return to his native state of Ohio. Datelined: Cardington, Morrow County, Ohio, March 20, 1864, in part “Tell him that Coomer’s boys is dead and Barnhart’s 2 boys is dead. Albert Caris 1 is dead. Merill Benson is dead. They died in the army. ... Well Sir, the Rebs here—we call them Butternuts. They keep damn shady [for] if they make a noise, they [are] very apt to get badly hurt. Times here are tolerable good. Work plenty, Wages high. I can get more than double wages from 75 to $1.50 per day. ... The damn Germans cheated me. No man could hire me to live in Missouri again. ... Oh yes, tell me what has become of the Butes. Does he belong to the Militia yet? And where did they hang A[ugust] Dolle? ...” After August Dolle (1832-1863) killed two Union soldiers from the 34th Enrolled Militia who had been discharged and were on their way home, he was captured by Union troops and sent home to be tried for murder in May 1863, but once he arrived within the county, the local militia took him off a train bound for St. Louis and hung him near St. Clair, Missouri. Dolle was from northwest Franklin county. His descendants claim that Dolle had twice been burned out by Federal militia and that he took to bushwhacking in revenge.
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