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., on patriotic stationery, written by Sgt. Thomas H. Mason, Co. I, 56th New York (Tenth Legion), Carver Brick, [Barracks, Washington], March 16, 1862, in part: "…we are going…to Fortress Monroe to join Burnside's Expedition for the same steamboats that convaid us from Newburgh to New York [City] are here…they are going to take the whole of General Casey's Division to which we [the] 56 Regt is attached…our cooks have been ordered to cook three days rations…there has been troops coming in and going out all week, some four or five regiments from New York this week…they are encamped all around us…there is nothing but encampments. There was between thirty five and forty thousand went across the Potomac…the city of Washington was one solid mass of soldiers…I am very much drove with fixing coats for our men for we have got new coats and new caps and the coat wants a good deal of fixing…". Some archival taping, else VG
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