2022-11 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/18/2022
War-date Union soldier's letter, 4pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. Alfred A. Thayer, Co. B, 96th Ohio Vols., "Encamp by Vicksburg, rite by the river, Mississippi, July 26, 1863," reading, in part: "-we were gone on the trip to Jackson 20 days. We had a pretty hard time of it. It was the hardest trip on me that we ever had. I got the chits & fever. The doctor knocked them but I fell away very fast. I had to ride all the way back. The way we had to go out made fifty miles. The way we came back-was only 40. I didn't get into Jackson but the rebs burnt part & we burnt the rest [leaving] only houses that is good for a hospital for there is so many sick. There was troops left there to garrison the place. It was good for them [rebs] that they left or we would of got every one [as] they was [in a] pretty well fix. They had better rifle pits than they had in Vicksburg but they were afraid of the Yanks. I don't no just how many prisoners we got but we got several hundred-most gave themselves up. We got to see Vicksburg. It is a very bad scattered place & a very ugly place-we are signing the payroll today-A. A. Thayer-". The original stamped transmittal cover is included. Thayer's phonetic spelling and loose grammar had been corrected. Light toning, else VG
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