NEW HAMPSHIRE CIVIL WAR LETTER WITH RACIAL CONTENT VIRGINIA 1862

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NEW HAMPSHIRE CIVIL WAR LETTER WITH RACIAL CONTENT VIRGINIA 1862:
$225.00

An original Civil War letter from Lemuel P Foss, 13th New Hampshire Infantry, at Upton Hills, Virginia, Oct 19, 1862, w ptd 13th NHV Camp logo- doing picket duty near the rebs, camped on Upton Hill, near Arlington, \"the sacred soil of Virginia- \"just niggers, not worth fighting for\". We are getting lazy, if we don’t fight soon will \"have to hire a nigger to feed us\", the men are sweeping the camp \" streets\". Virginia is brown & dry, the only green are the NH boys who just arrived and they are pretty green. He attended Sunday camp meeting w Colonel Stevens & his family & 1500 men singing, etc. 5pp 8 x 5\" ink.w cover addr to father Woodbury M Foss.