Raynor HCA 2014-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/30/2014
A good war-date Union soldier's letter, 4pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. Herbert George Bond (1846-1928), Co. I, 16th Vermont (Vermont Militiaman during the St. Albans Raid and doorkeeper of the US Senate Chamber, Washington, D. C.), "on the picket line near Camp Vermont, Dec. 1, 1862", in part: "…we are all well…and have to go on picket most all of the time…I should think Ellis showed himself pretty smart. I would give him a smack in the jaw…he writes dreadful pious letters to the boys telling them to pray for themselves. I should think he had better try it himself…I stood on picket last night on a plantation…it is so large that the folks are most neighbors with them…he keeps 13 horses, 6 cows [and] he has a lot of negroes to work for him. This morning they took a wagon and 6 horses and went out and got a load of corn…they [they officers] wont let us have a [?] of fire night or day [while we are] on picket. They are afraid the light might…show were the line is…". VG
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