Raynor HCA 2013-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/10/2013
Pair of war-date Union soldier's letters written by Pvt. Timothy O'Sullivan, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery, to Astoria, Connecticut, reading in part: ("Front of Petersburg, VA, January 27, 1865, 2 pp.)…I wrote to you a few days ago about a pass…no (one) will get one unless they show it is a case of sickness and by you doing as I said to have Doctor Terry go and see my mother and himself write to me so I could show it. I think I could get a furlough on the strength of it…the furloughs are granted for only 15 days…("Front of Petersburg, VA, March 2, 1865, 3 pp.)…We are expecting the paymaster every day. It is time he should come, we will be paid only for 4 months, although 6 months pay was due the last day of February… They say the pay master is drunk and do(es) not attend to his business. It is just the same way with the whole of officers…I expect to send the priest a reasonable little sum…This is a disagreeable place when it rains…it reminds me of the Old Country. We are in the greatest hopes of this being the last summer of the war… " VG.
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