Raynors 2012-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/27/2012
War-date Union sutler’s Autograph Letter Signed by John T. Dunn, 4pp. octavo, Washington, April 11, 1862, and reads in part: “...I received your welcome letter...I had been down the river with a boat load of goods for a sutler and did not get back as soon as I anticipated having been detained because of the forward movement of that division of the army of the Potomac....you cannot go anywhere to find better wages or employment than this place. Men are getting $25 per mont...or a dollar and a quarter a day and find themselves the work is not so hard but that anything claiming the name of man might do it...You say truly that I could send you many incidents that would be of interest to you situated as I am right here where the blood of the Nations hear pulsates but it is not now as easy for me to sit down and daub over a sheet as it used to be. Things have changed with me considerable besides I am somewhat in the situation of the man that was looking for the town after he got into it and could nto see it for the houses living as I have lately been in the midst of camps and stirring scenes and the multipicity of them, what seems to me as nothing would probably be interesting to you. But I will tell that I have soldiered two days when our army advanced on the rebels at shipping point and Dumfrees Virginia. Got sight of the rebels once and had the satisfaction of being among a party that made them run...” Fine condition.
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