Pursued By A Mulatto Girl. "I felt pretty cheap I tell you."

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War-date Union soldier's letter, 4pp. 8vo., written, on "Our Country. Our Homes. Cincinnati Sanitary Commission to Our Brave Soldiers" stationery, by Pvt. Alfred A. Thayer, Co. B, 96th Ohio Vols., Marion Hospital, New Orleans, La., June 22, 1864, reading, in part: "-we had had a general examination here, nurses & all. [It] put a good many in the Invalid corps, furloughed a good many & discharged a good many whom they call the nurses of our ward. The 3 first got put in Invalid Corps & I was 4 so I thought because I was so fat that they would send me to the regt for they were 3 majors Drs but I went up put on a smile. They looked at me & said 'You are most well, aint you' & I said 'yesser' & the old head Dr. said 'Mark him to be kept as nurse.' So You see the difference between a long face & a smile-we have more empty beds then we have had since I been here. We have 45 now & another lot goes to the Invalid corps tomorrow. Annie, I will have to tell you the joke on me. There was a mulatto girl came up with out wash a few times when she came up to wash the dishes & she told the boys that she liked me so Sunday after dinner I laid down to sleep. She got a fan & came & sat down by my bed. It was very warm. She commenced fanning me so she woke me up & commenced talking to me. I felt pretty cheap I tell you. It just tickled the boys the best kind so I got up & left but she thinks I am the best looking fellow she has ever seen. I have shaved off clean & being in the shade look pretty white for me. With this I close-A. A. Thayer." The original stamped transmittal cover is included. Thayer's phonetic spelling and loose grammar had been corrected. Minor spotting, else VG.

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