Mr Fancy Cancel 65 CIVIL WAR COVER TIED VA CDS TO OHIO 4 PAGE SOLDIER\'S LETTER
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Mr Fancy Cancel 65 CIVIL WAR COVER TIED VA CDS TO OHIO 4 PAGE SOLDIER\'S LETTER:
$72.00
Mr Fancy Cancel 65 CIVIL WAR COVER TIED VA CDS TO OHIO 4 PAGE SOLDIER\'S LETTER
Very nice soldier letter home with 65 cover tied by indistinct VA CDS addressed to Ohio. The cover came with a soldier\'s letter to his sister on Patriotic Stationery showing an embossedWashington, Flags and anEagle.
This comes with aprinted text of the letter - the last page is missing and the spot is noted below. The original transcript was printed on a hard card - I will send it printed on regular paper. If the buyer requests I can email the text after the sale.The letter hasno paragraph breaks and many misspelled words. Great Civil War and Postal History item.
Camp lee, April 20th 1862
Dear Sister
I Take my pen to write you a few lines to let you know that i am Well and hope that these few lines may finde you all Well I Would have wrote sooner but i have not had time any sooner We had a very good time While We Was at romney but nothing hardly Could be bought We never went in our tents While We Was There the Court house Was a very good place it looks hard to see the Way things is going to distraction the recorders office is open and all the records are there and most of them is toren to pieses and a great many of the books is toren up in both of the offices recorders and auditors is open for any body they is some very old records there but i suppose they Think that When they gain the day everything Will become New but i think they Can never accomplish much some thinks the War Will soon end but i don\'t know i have not been much disappointed yet and i am a bout as fleshy as Common The boys has not fated up since We Came to this state you have been wanting to know What we get to eat and the reason i never Wrote Was i thought you Would hear plenty to satisfy you all you have herd some talk a bout our kind of living while We was in Camp McClellan We had bakers bread all the Time but when we sent to grafton We had Crackers a little While at first then We got bakers bread til we went to newcreek We had crackers to eat on the road We had bakers bread most of the time while in Camp but Crackers always While on a march each man gets 16 ounces of bakers bread and Coffee and sugar 2 times a day While we was at grafton We got black tea a few days We got plenty of beans most of the time til lately but We had got tierd eating beans all the Time but We get enough of them We had Some fresh beef but the most Was old fat salt pork the best Way to eat it Was raw We have had all fresh beef since We left romney We did get potatoes evry other day in Camp McClellan and a bout as often at grafton but We get few now We get rice middling often and We get hominy once and a While and salt Candles soap We have never had any fresh pork nor salt beef the bread is not very good it is heavy and sour the crackers is very dry and hard but We get a long fine a person can live an middling little if they are used to it while we was at grafton We got syrup a few times and We Would trade Coffee for syrup We get more Coffee than We use We got green Coffee a While at grafton and most of the messes bought mills rather than pound it some got tierd of Crackers and some got tierd of bread i think it is a good plan to change our bread i think a good deal of the sickness Was Caused by the march to Romney and moorfield When a man is drove so hard that he Cant hardly stand and all Wet with swet then stop and sit down on the snow til they Would get Cold and in our trip to moorfield We Was almost starved on account of the teams not getting a long as soon as they Was to but We don\'t have it so hard now sunday 12th i and a bout 20 more out of the regt Was detailed for to build a ferry boat so that We could get a crost the river the size of the boat Was 50 ft long and 12 ft wide We Worked til monday eavning We got it done an run it a Crost a few times the river is not very Wide but deep and swift Tuesday 15 We left romney and moved towards moorfield We got a crost the river a bout 12 oclock one Co Could go a Crost at a time it rained monday night and tuesday morning and the roads Was bad We marched 7 miles and Camped for the night
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Wednesday morning about 8 oclock We started and marched 6 miles then stoped and made Coffee and eat dinner then marched 7 miles and Camped Thursday morning We marched 11 miles and encamped on a nice piece of ground on the West side of the river 3 miles below moorfield here is Where the brigade is to be formed Wednesday the road got middling it was very Warm Thursday Was Warm and in the after noon We had a thunder shower Friday 18 they Was 26 of us detailed to go down the river after a ferry boat it had got loos they dident know Where it Was they is a large iseland a little ways below the ferry i got in a Canoe and Went round the island to see if it was on the other side and if they Would find it they Was to hollow to us We Went down the West side to the point of the island and dident find it or see the boys in the Canoe they had found it and dident hallow to us they Was 2 have been With us they asked if any of us Could swim a Crost to the island it wasent Wide but very swift 2 boys belonging to Co E said they Would they kept on their shirts drawrs and one put on his boots and Wouldent take Them of they insisted in him to take them of but he Would not and Went up a little ways above the point of the island and jump in the one With the boots of Went up further he Went a crost The other fellow Went down about 80 rods and drownded he hollowed for help but nothing Could be done his body has not been found his name Was george nims he Was about 20 years old Monday morning 21 We have had a good deal of rain it rained all day yester and last night and this is going to be a wet day the ground is quite wet and very muddy there is several regiments encamped near moorfield general schenk Came to romney monday eavning and has ben with us since he has his head quarters her now When We left romney We was to go to stanton but the order Was Countermanded then We stoped her Where now it is hard to tell We get the ferry boat up to its place ready for us to go a crost The Cavalry fetched in 25 bush Whackers Saturday after noon 19 they had no uniform on 22 of them had guns they Was squirrel rifles they Was a hard looking set of men I don\'t know What they Will do With them The health of the regt is very good they they is quite a number of grafton sick out of this regt Col Lee got back The 8th major DeWolf is home sick i have not herd of that Box yet i think it is doubtful a bout me getin it now if i had knowed that you Was going to send anything i Would have Wrote to not send any thing i don\'t know What i Would do With it for We Cant hardly Carry our Cloths our load is a bout 50 pounds i Wrote home to Wilson and Batty from Romney i received your letter the 19 and one at Romney one from Ralph i must Close Write soon W R Tittle To Sarah W Tittle
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Mr Fancy Cancel 65 CIVIL WAR COVER TIED VA CDS TO OHIO 4 PAGE SOLDIER\'S LETTER:
$72.00