Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
War-date Union officer’s Autograph Letter Signed by Colonel Francis Parker, 32nd Massachusetts Volunteers, penned at Fort Warren, December 11, 1861, 2pp. quarto, and reads in part: “...Since I arrived I have been too busy to feel the isolation and as the weather has been tolerable I am not so miserable as I expected to be. Most of my time has been occupied in peeping about and asking questions - I think that the officers and men of my command being to have a realizing sense of the fact that somebody has arrived - The Colonel overwhelmed with the multiplicity of his affairs seems quite willing to place the detail of the battalion in my hands and treats me with the utmost consideration - The officers are most of them excellent men and they and the men show sorry willingness to perfect themselves in their duty. This evening I had the Captains at my quarters for instruction - one of them asked another what he should do if he entered the mens quarters and found them sitting down playing cards - ‘Well’ said the other ‘I think I should sit down and take a hand myself.’ He had better not let me catch him at it. The officer of the day told me this evening that he went into one of the quarters and found them reading the Bible before prayer in which the party had agreed to join every night. Of the prisoner I know nothing - not one of them is known to me by sight excepting the few that I had known elsewhere & of them I have seen nothing. They say that Mason is very confident that his release will be demanded by the British government...” Fine condition.
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