Raynors HCA 2016-10
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War-date Union soldier's letter, 3pp. 8vo., in patriotic stationery, written by Pvt. William Jasper McKnight, Co. B, 37th Indiana Vols., Camp Haycraft, Elizabethtown, Hardin Co., Kentucky, Dec. 06, 1861, in part: "…the most we have to complain of now is the muddy weather…we have not drilled…for more than a week…we drill about six hours in the day and go double quick about one fourth of the time. Double quick is what will make a fellow sweat…we are all anxious to git into a fight…Buckner is some 40 miles south…with some fifteen or twenty thousand men. It is said that they are poorly armed and poorly clad. There is a good many on our side in this neighborhood…and [more] still coming in yet. We are on the Louisville and Nashville railroad about 70 miles south west of Louisville at Elizabethtown…a little south of the town…truly, Jasper Mac Knight…". Light soiling else VG
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