Raynors HCA 2015-05
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War-date Union soldier's letter, 4pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. Ephraim W. Frost [POW Winchester, Va., 6/13/63; WIA Piedmont, Va., 6/05/64 & DOD 1/15/65], Co. I, 116th Ohio Vols., "In Camp at Sleepy Creek, Morgan Co., West Va., Feb.11, 1864," in part: "…they say that our men drove in the pickets within twelve miles of Richmond …they are going to move the prisoners from Richmond…for our men are rather uncomfortably close…I got a letter from Mel…he said the Russian fleet was there and…one of them got shot a few days ago. He said that he thought they would hang the man that shot him…if the soldiers could get a hold of him they would burn him…there was one of the guerrilla leaders killed a few days ago between Romney and Moorefield and his lieut…his name was McCain. [Possibly he means Capt. Hanse McNeill.] He was a hard case. He had murdered a man by the name of Arnold, that lived not far from Romney…but he is done for now and will have to stand up before a higher throne…and give an account of himself…if thare is such a place as hell…[he] will certainly find it…E. W. Frost.". Frost's phonetic spelling has been corrected. VG
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