Raynors 2012-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/27/2012
War-date Union Autograph Letter Signed by John T. Dunn, 4pp. quarto, Harpers Ferry, November 15, 1862, and reads in part: “...I cannot easily forgett the Jewett City folks...Let me know who of the city boys enlisted and if any got killed. I am told that Fred Hood has enlisted I guess he will find it a good deal harder work than blacksmithing. I do not want to see any of the boys that I thought anythign of enlist for it would be about as good for to die at once or spend his three years in purgatory as a soldier for the same length of time. A soldier is treated worse than a dog in fact I did not have any idea that human nature could stand one half of what a soldier has to undergo be it no money nor any other consideration ever induce you to join the army...Harpers Ferry...is a dreary looking hole all the government buildings and many of the private houses burned down. Nothing but the walls standing. I came here and hired a store expecting the army to remain here this winter and I put all the ready I had into it in goods expecting to turn it very soon into cash. But I am sadly disappointed. The most of the troops have moved away and here I am with a good many goods and hardly know what to do with them...” Good condition.
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