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, on "United States Sanitary commission, N. E. Auxiliary Association" stationery, by Pvt. Alfred A. Thayer, Co. B, 96th Ohio Vols., Marion Hospital, New Orleans, La., May 11, 1864, reading, in part: "-I think I can stay as long as I want-The Doctor was in the other night & he ask the Co.s nurse if I was a good nurse. He told him I was one of the best so the Dr. ask me how I liked it. I told him I guess I would stay till I got my shits broken up. He put his arm around me & said I had better make up my mind to stay with him. I guess I will, for awhile-you mosenet think of coming down here for it would kill you to-in the hot weather-it will be pretty bad for some of them home guard to leave for it is a bad time of the year but never mind one crop will help put down the rebellion-when this war is over there will be lots of glad hearts & lots of sad ones-A. A. Thayer-". The original stamped "United States Sanitary commission, N. E. Auxiliary Association" transmittal cover is included. Thayer's phonetic spelling and loose grammar had been corrected. Minor spotting, else VG.
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