2005-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/31/2005
A 4pp. 4to. letter written in ink by Sergeant Martin V. Miller [Corinth Miss., March 7th 1863], to his sister concerning the Conscription Act, reading, in part: "...Military Operations of all kind are entirely suspended here…a battle at Vicksburg is still impending as it has been for a month and may be for a month to come…the Conscription Act, passed by Congress is hailed with joy by the troops in the field. If some of those able bodied young men at home could hear the jokes…at their expense…the majority of them would enlist rather than stand a draft…woe be unto the man who comes into the field as a Conscript. The Negro tramps will find more favor from the Vol[unteer]s than they. Even the new Regt's who came into the field under the last call are looked with more contempt by the older ones. The men are asked if they are the one hundred dollar men [and] how much the Government paid for their Reg't, [and] which [is] the Government…paying the most for men or mules…if they know what is good for them, they would enlist in one of the old Regt's…". Minor toning, else very good.
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