2004-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2004
Autograph Letter Signed, “Joseph Leavitt” 5th Maine Infantry, 3-1/4p. octavo, on fine hand-colored Magnus illustrated statioanry with Maine state seal, Camp Franklin, St. John Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia, November 10, 1861, with camp news and drilling reports, in part “every Sunday mornign have a inspection of arms and our clothign and have the laws of the United States read to us and they are strict laws to go by . There is one thing and that is the this we have a plenty of clothing but there is some little things that we need but the men ought never grumble of the care that is taken of them, because Uncle Sam is a good provider and a good Pay master...I am in a place where there is got to be another Battle and I can tell you it is not gone to be a Bulls Run fight but gone to be a long and bloody one...” VG.
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