CIVIL WAR LETTER - 11th RHODE ISLAND INFANTRY - EDWIN PERRY

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CIVIL WAR LETTER - 11th RHODE ISLAND INFANTRY - EDWIN PERRY:
$32.99

A 4-page ink letter from Edwin Perry, Company C, 11th Rhode Island Infantry

\"Camp of Guards at Camp Distribution, Feb 10/63. My dear brother.....This camp we are now engaged in guarding, it is rather hard looking. It consists of common A tents pitched on the ground with nothing but Virginia mud for the men to sleep on. The remaining brigades of General McCall\'s division arrived here yesterday morning but have not yet formed an encampment as they expect to move further. These men look rather the worse for wear. Some of them were sitting around the fire shivering with their blankets on.....I have been looking after the patriotic testimony of the volunteer soldiery butbest I can find is the common expression that \"they would see the government in hell before they would come again\" or \"if they would print greenbacks until our time is out they even would not hire them to stay longer\".....I bought twenty pounds of hay yesterday and sewingtwo shelter tents together for a bed sack I made a very comfortable bed to lay down in. Your affectionate brother, Edwin Perry.\"

Excellent condition and easily read with much more content

Rhode Island soldier letters are scarce

Edwin Perry died in 1910 at Edgewood, Rhode Island

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