CHARLES NICHOLS 1862 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER BY A UNION SOLDIER DETAILING THE HORRORS OF WAR AND ORDERS TO KILL ANYONE THAT OFFERS 'INSULT' Stewart Mansion Hospital, Baltimore Maryland MD 1862
16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall Manuscript CIVIL WAR LETTER BY CHARLES NICHOLS - Union soldier. ALS [ink] on color litho. patriotic stationary showing Union soldier standing on Confederate flag, Stewarts Mansion Hospital, Baltimore, MD, Sept. 21, 1862, 4pp. Snippets: Stationed on SW side of city on a little hill / yesterday our soldiers brought into this city 1700 prisoners that were taken at Harpers Ferry...they were hard looking fellows / awful ragged and dirty / about 800 soldiers here in hospital some are badly wounded / one poor fellow that had both legs shot off in battle and he says that if any body will give him some wooden legs, he would like to go into another battle / our orders when we go on guard are, if any one offers us any insult to run the bayonet through them or else shoot them dead on the spot, and I should do it if I had the chance, for you know that we are among rebels and we do not know who are friends to us and who are not / talks about hours he has to stand guard. VG. Very Good
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