Raynors HCA 2015-08
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/27/2015
A good war-date Confederate soldier's letter, 4pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. J. H. Sheperd, Co. G, 35th North Carolina Vols., Newbern, N. C., Feb. 9, 1862, in part: "…I got to camp the Saturday after I left home and I had…not…got inside of the guard line but I happened to meet Lieutenant Case [Charles A. Case] at the gard tent…he passed me inside the gard line and I went [to] Capt. Jorden [Capt. Joseph P. Jordan, DOD Raleigh, 4/22/62] and I gave him the letter that I got from the Dr. and he never said a word to me. Johnson told Jorden that I had got transferred to the thirty 5 regiment but he told him a lie, but I don't care a damn. I have got back to my post without eny truble. The men all like…Cap. Jorden…they say they would not give him nary…we are on the Neuse river. The river is about two miles wide. I jest now saw a very large steamer boat again up the river. Here is the best country I ever saw. They make spirits of turpentine her. I saw lots of cannonballs at Goldsboro. The soldiers has built [a] fort about three miles below here. I expect we will leave here before long…several of the boys has got the mumps. We put on our accouterments in the morning and don't get time to eat hardly we'll hurry across the old field and yell like the devil. I must close, J. H. Sheperd…". Sheperd was a very poor speller and we have corrected his phonetic spelling for continuity. We also know from the content of his letters that he was a member of Co. G, 35th North Carolina, but the CW Data base does not show his in their rolls. Light staining, else VG
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