February 23rd, 2012
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2012
Union soldier’s letter written by Charles Leonard, Camp Parapet, La., February 16, 1864, 3pp., plus cover, In part, “Mother feels very sorry because Willie has enlisted ... If I am discharged from the regiment I am now in, I will surely be drafted and sent to the field like a conscript, so Father I shall never be drafted. I think to much of my country to ever have it said that I was made to go and fight. ...I should like very much to get my discharge so I could go home ... Mother says you seem to think that as I had deserted the Confederate army, I might do the same here. No, Father, that is the last thing I ever would do. While in the Confederate army I was fighting for nothing, while here I have a Mother, Father, brother and sister to fight for. ... I am now fighting under the flag that I was born under ...”
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