Raynor HCA 2014-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/30/2014
A good war-date Union sailor's letter, 4pp. 8vo., written by Ezra Greene, Cairo, Oct. 19, 1862, in part: "…there has been a reformation in the fleet and navy officers put in all the boat. The fleet now belongs to the Navy…after the new officers came on board the Louisville a board of doctors examined the men and all that were unfit for duty were put on board of the steamer Sovereign and sent up the river to…Mound City hospital…we have been on the Sovereign ever since…the Cincinnati's men have fared rather hard this season. Their boat was sunk once [and] shot all to pieces at another time and have lost 24 men in about 4 weeks. I was lucky to get off of her…these gunboats are cold places in the winter…". VG
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