2022-11 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/18/2022
War-date Union soldier's letter, 3pp. 4to., with U. S. Sanit ary Commission barrel stamped stationery, written by Pvt. Alfred A. Thayer, Co. B, 96th Ohio Vols., Marion Hospital, New Orleans, La., April 22, 1864, concerning the Union disaster at the battle of Sabine Cross Roads, La., April 8, 1864, reading, in part: "-there is one [letter] from the regt since the fight. We lost in our regt 57 men, 2 of them of our company killed, Oren Walter of Fredricktown & Jacob Fester [WIA/POW wounded in right hip. DOW Blair's Landing, La., 6/12/64] of Gambier. George [?], John Tressel [POW], Samuel Stacks [Samuel Stokes] missing, but the rest of the company he didn't know but he said Bill B. was alright. Dr. [John F.] Hess prisoner. I was sorry to hear that Henry [?] was dead. Annie, the patients are very restless tonight. Sometimes I cant right a line till some man will holler nurse-I jump our ward is full again. There was one of the old nurses told me-I could stay as long as I wanted-it is the place [were] they neediest brave men but-my place is in the field-A. A. Thayer. Marion Hospital, New Orleans, Ward S, bed 57." An original stamped transmittal cover is included. Thayer's phonetic spelling and loose grammar had been corrected. Minor spotting, else VG.
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