Raynor HCA 2014-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/30/2014
A good war-date Union soldier's letter, 3pp. 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.), "Camp near Union Mills, Va., April 17, 1863, in part: "…we have got to wait a spell now for the bridge has been gone of across the Bull Run…it will take some time to get the bridge built up again. The rebs are around watching our pickets. George was on picket last night at MacLane's Ford and they heard men and saw lights across the stream but they did not dare to cross…they are having battalion drill. Old Colonel Veasey means to put them right through a drill. He has drilled his regiment more than any of the rest of the colonel's…they have been having battalion and skirmish drill…first they fired by company and then at will…I had a tooth pulled today. One man had 4 pulled. He took chloroform. O' how he acted squire. He would kill the doctor…". Signed "Old Herb" with the original transmittal cover. VG.
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