Raynors HCA 2015-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/19/2015
A good war-date Union soldier's letter, 4pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. James B. Sterling, Co. E, 7th Conn. Vols., [MWIA Olustee, Florida, 2/20/64], "on board the US Western World, Feb. 12, 1862," in part: "…the mesquitoes would carry you off [here.] There is some here large enough to make a team and draw our cannon across the marsh…we have got two batteries here and I have to help guard them. There is 3 or 4 steamers come down so that we get a shot at them every day…I do not fear them for they can not hit us. They have got no guns that will carry far enough to hit us [and] they do not fire now…we have killed 3 big alligators here that measures 9 to 11 feet. They are quick as lightening altho they look like a slow and stupid animal. They are a bad looking creature. They are enough to scare the evil one. I had rather meet a secessionist anytime…I have been sick with measles…a hard thing for a man to have away down here in the swamps of South Carolina…". VG
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