July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
War-date Union soldier’s Autograph Letter Signed by Sgt. Perry C. Goodrich, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, 4pp. quarto, March 19, 1864, Cleveland, Tennessee, and reads in part: “...We are out of the Dept. of the Ohio into the Department of the Cumberalnd again...do you know that during winter I sometimes suffered with hunger, saying nothing about living out of doors with the thermometer at zero? I have been three days without tasting anything of bread kind except parched corn. I had all the tough sinewy beef I wanted, therefore was in no danger of starving. This was in December. A majority of the men had more to eat than I did, for they would rob women and children of the last they had before they would go hungry. The infantry fared worse than the cavalry for they could not get out so far in the country to forage for themselves. When I was at Strawberry Plains I was offered by infantry men twenty five cents an ear for corn to parch, they were so hungry. I was obliged to refuse them, for my horse needed the corn and it had wrung my heart to be obliged to take it from the poor people; besides if I had given (of course I would not have sold it to hungry soldiers) one man an ear or two of corn. I should have had in a short time a regiment of infantry after me wanting corn to parch. The inhabitants of East Tennessee will starve if Government does not help them. They have already commenced issuing provisions to the citizens at this place....” Fine condition.
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